We were recently in Colorado and had the chance to take our 7, 10 and 12 year old boys on a half-day river rafting adventure. It was great! We had a senior river guide who had not fallen out of the boat all year. That was, of course, until he met our two families. It wasn't a big bump, but before you knew it, we had no guide! It was pretty wild. He scrambled back into the boat cursing the fact he would have to buy a case of beer for the other guides. Consider rafting next year. We all had a great time! When your number is up...
In police work we always felt when it was your number, it was simply your number. You never know when your final moment on this earth will arrive. When Chief Lansdowne spoke at Officer Jeremy Henwood's funeral last Friday, he said investigators found a still warm paper bag full of uneaten food from McDonalds on the passenger seat of his car.
It was evident he had been ambushed only minutes after leaving the McDonalds on University Ave. SDPD Detectives returned to the McDonalds to see if there had been a confrontation of some type. The Detectives and the manager huddled in the cramped office as they played back a video tape and saw the last few minutes of Officer Henwood's life.
As they reviewed the tape it showed Officer Henwood purchase his lunch and then begin to leave the restaurant. It was then he saw a young boy standing back from the counter counting the coins in his hand and appearing disappointed. Jeremy approached the youth, smiled and then removed money from his own wallet and proceeded to buy the child lunch. That little boy will never forget the big, tall, kind, policeman that helped him. We won't forget Jeremy either.
Be safe and enjoy your week!
