Ok so there is another officer dead. It was the first officer on the scene last night at 3am.
The reason they could not apprehend them at first was because he had a police radio and was staying a step ahead of them apparently.
Just called again they still will not release the names to the parents but who we believe it is. We need to use the media to our advantage and get them to put pressue on the police to release the freaking names already. Parents have gone through over 12 hours of hell. TELL THEM already!!!
I dont want to post the names in case parents are on here.. especially since I do not know for sure it is them but we are pretty sure. What do ya’ll think?
I think it would be wise to keep it under your hat for a bit...let them be notified and not read of it here.
Just my opinion...
Don’t post names yet.
You're instinct's correct. Let the officials do the release.
WOW- he killed another LEO first?
Trust your instincts- let it come from officials first. The parents probably know - they haven’t been able to reach their kids by phone...and they haven’t come home.
It’s a holiday weekend. If one of the kids has parents who are out of town, it’s going to take time to reach them and officials wouldn’t want them getting the news on the radio, so it’s not unusual to sit on the names until all the parents can be located. The rest of the parents know their kid didn’t come home. That pretty much tells them what they need to know.
Hard call. I think I'd withhold pending notification of next of kin. It may not be the "right" thing to do, but it is the custom to allow them the dignity of being told in person, by some one who can be with them and cry with them or otherwise console them as needed.
One of my friend’s family found out about her father’s death through the media. It’s not the way to do it.
When the PD sends out the bearer of the bad news, it’s usually someone who has or is accompanied by someone with experience in grief counseling.
Don't do it.
He took it upon his young shoulders to tell the boy’s mom, and was grieving with her when his friend walked in.
It wasn’t he who had drowned, but a child from up river who looked like him.
My dad regrets to this day (he’s 81 now) what he put the mom through that day.