DENVER (KDVR) — Because the Golden neighborhood mourns the lack of fallen police Officer Evan Dunn, one other Colorado regulation enforcement widow is displaying her assist for his household.
33-year-old Officer Evan Dunn was killed whereas responding to a crash in Golden final week. His personal funeral service and procession have been held on Wednesday. Officer Bethany Grusing was critically injured within the crash as properly.
“I simply need to say to them, you aren’t alone and that you’ve got a blue household that loves you dearly and can sacrifice for you,” mentioned the widow of El Paso County Sheriff’s Workplace Deputy Micah Flick, Rachael Flick. “That is among the silver linings of a line of responsibility loss is it is a very tight-knit neighborhood.”
Flick was shot and killed throughout an auto theft investigation in 2018, after spending 11 years on the sheriff’s workplace. He left behind two youngsters.
“Shedding Micah was probably the most devastating occasion of my life and is unmatched by anything however in serving the neighborhood, in talking on his behalf, in ministering to different widows and humanizing regulation enforcement, there’s a little piece of redemption and it brings a bit little bit of worth, consolation and therapeutic for me in shedding Micah,” mentioned Flick.
The suspect accused in Dunn’s dying was again in court docket on Thursday, going through fees of vehicular murder, vehicular assault and driving underneath the affect. He’s due again in court docket subsequent month.
“I simply need to remind those who we’ve a Transfer Over Legislation for a motive and Officer Dunn isn’t the primary officer who has been killed within the line of responsibility attending to a visitors accident,” mentioned Flick. “His household, his spouse, his mother and father, his coworkers are without end modified. They will be marked by this loss and they’re going to have a earlier than and after of Officer Dunn’s dying.”
