08-31-2010, 04:57 PM
i have never believed civilians should go out on ride-alongs. especially family members. ANYTHING can happen, even in a small town. sadly and horribly, this is why. this poor mother will never be the same again. if she can even survive.
A St. Petersburg mother visiting her police officer son in Alaska watched as a gunman shot him to death along with another officer in a seemingly unprovoked ambush, according to police and news reports.
"Officer down," Debbie Greene called on her son's squad car radio after the shootings Saturday, according to the Anchorage Daily News.
Greene was on a ride-along with her son, Sgt. Anthony Wallace, 32, when the shooting occurred in Hoonah, the Alaskan shoreline community of 800 where they worked. Officer Matthew Tokuoka, 39, was shot in front of his wife and two of his children.
Greene continually relives the attack, said Jamie Brothers, an ex-girlfriend of Wallace who remained close friends with him.
"She's doing awful. She says she's just numb," Brothers told the Associated Press. "She dozes off because she can't sleep, and when she wakes up she prays it was just dream. Every time she closes her eyes, she sees the bullets and hears the gunshots."
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A St. Petersburg mother visiting her police officer son in Alaska watched as a gunman shot him to death along with another officer in a seemingly unprovoked ambush, according to police and news reports.
"Officer down," Debbie Greene called on her son's squad car radio after the shootings Saturday, according to the Anchorage Daily News.
Greene was on a ride-along with her son, Sgt. Anthony Wallace, 32, when the shooting occurred in Hoonah, the Alaskan shoreline community of 800 where they worked. Officer Matthew Tokuoka, 39, was shot in front of his wife and two of his children.
Greene continually relives the attack, said Jamie Brothers, an ex-girlfriend of Wallace who remained close friends with him.
"She's doing awful. She says she's just numb," Brothers told the Associated Press. "She dozes off because she can't sleep, and when she wakes up she prays it was just dream. Every time she closes her eyes, she sees the bullets and hears the gunshots."