Body Of Officer Who Died Working On Harvey Recovered

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Despite the risk of going outside when the terrible tropical storm Harvey hit Houston early Sunday morning, police department officers went out to work and today mourn the death of one of them: Sgt. Steve Pérez.

According to CNN, the head of the police department of that city, Arturo Acevedo yesterday confirmed the identity of the deceased officer while indicating that he had worked more than half of his life for that institution, since he was 6 years old and He spent 34 of them at his service.

According to his wife, at dawn on Sunday, she had asked Pérez not to leave home due to the dangerous situation in the city, but he replied that "he had work to do."

The officer was on his way to work, patrolling the north of the city, when he got into a flooded highway and could not get out of there with his patrol. His body was recovered yesterday morning. He spent two days missing.

Acevedo revealed that he spoke in person with the officer's widow, and she told him that she was proud of her husband's effort to protect his community.

For his part, the mayor of Houston, Sylvester Turner, praised the work of the deceased policeman: and through a tweet he said that the agent: “He fulfilled his purpose. Your mission is accomplished. " Likewise at a press conference he expressed his pride in his integrity: "I am proud even now that he did not give up."