100 Officers Escort Fallen Cop's Son to Kindergarten

Caitlin Burke
08-24-2017

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Police officers from across Texas saw to it that Kevin Will, Jr., did not go to his first day of kindergarten alone.

 

 

In 2011, his father, an officer in the Houston Police Department, was killed while on duty.

"I think he was way overwhelmed today," Kevin's mother, Alisha Will, told The Houston Chronicle. "But he was excited about kindergarten, and I talked to him about the officers being here because his daddy couldn't."

The boy never knew his father, born three months after he was killed.

Standing in for his fallen daddy, nearly 100 officers took the five-year-old boy on his one-mile trek to Wildwood Elementary School in Tomball.

 

 

Some officers made the trip on horseback and a helicopter escort followed overhead. 

Alisha noted that her son may have lost his father, but he gained a family in his father's fellow officers 

"He knows," she said, "that they'll always be there."
 

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Caitlin Burke serves as National Security Correspondent and a general assignment reporter for CBN News. She has also hosted the CBN News original podcast, The Daily Rundown. Some of Caitlin’s recent stories have focused on the national security threat posed by China, America’s military strength, and vulnerabilities in the U.S. power grid. She joined CBN News in July 2010, and over the course of her career, she has had the opportunity to cover stories both domestically and abroad. Caitlin began her news career working as a production assistant in Richmond, Virginia, for the NBC affiliate WWBT
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