Officer sean collier biography of williams
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Fallen MIT police officer Sean Collier remembered as a friend and determined young man
BOSTON - Sean Collier was close to fulfilling a dream. Collier had reportedly scored high on his civil service exam and was
likely going to join the Somerville Police Department in June
, according to what Lt. William Rymill of the Somerville police told Boston.com.
Collier won't be able to realize that dream because on Thursday evening he was shot and killed by brothers Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, while responding to a reported disturbance on the MIT campus.
According to an Associated Press report, Collier was found shot several times in his vehicle in the area of Vassar and Main streets in Cambridge.
Collier had worked at MIT as a campus police officer since January 2012. He was a civilian employee of the Somerville Police Department prior to that.
MIT Police Chief John DiFava told Boston.com that Collier was well liked by both the M
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Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...
Reflections for Patrol Officer Sean Allen Collier
I'm sending many prayers to your family, friends and the entire MITPD. You're a hero Officer Collier. May you rest in peace and know you will never be forgotten.
Carolyn Cassidy, Crime Analyst
Alexandria Police Department, Virginia
April 19, 2013
"A Part of America Died"
Somebody killed a policeman today,
and a part of amerika died.
A piece of our country he swore to protect,
will be buried with him at his side.
The suspect that shot him will stand up in court,
with counsel demanding his rights.
While a young widowed mother must work for her kids,
and spend many long, lonely nights.
The beat that he walked was a battle field too,
just as if he'd gone off to war.
Though the flag of our nation won't flyga eller fly undan at half mast,
to his name they will add a gold star.
Yes, somebody killed a policeman today,
in your town or mine.
While we slept in comfort behind o
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BOSTON -- The mother of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer killed by Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was so distraught by his death that she could not get out of bed for months, the officer's stepfather testified Wednesday.
Officer Sean Collier was gunned down three days after the bombing as Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan, were trying to flee.
Tsarnaev, 21, was convicted this month in the bombing and Collier's killing. The jury is now hearing testimony on whether Tsarnaev should be put to death.
Collier's stepfather, Joseph Reynolds, described a close-knit, blended family that formed when he and Collier's mother married in 1993. Reynolds said he raised Collier from about the age of 6.
"It was sort of a 'Brady Bunch' situation," he said.
Reynolds, as well as Collier's younger brother, Andrew, described Sean as a kid who always had a strong sense of right and wrong, down to putting bugs outside rather than killing them.
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