lefthome

So sad I couldn't imagine!

Cop Finds Dying Son at Scene of Fight
Tuesday, March 29, 2005

PATERSON, N.J. — A police officer responding to a report of a fight found that the mortally wounded victim was his son.

Officer Wayne Smith was working a night shift early Easter morning when he was called to the scene and pushed his way through the blood-spattered crowd.

Someone yelled, "Wayne, that's your son, Dayshawn. He just got stabbed."

"It went right to my heart," Smith told the Herald News of West Paterson in an interview published Tuesday. "My adrenaline pumped up more. I ran up to him, but he was lifeless."

Dayshawn Smith (search), 20, had been stabbed in the chest just after 3 a.m. Sunday. Authorities said he was wounded as he tried to break up a fight.

Officer Smith said he held his son and helped medical personnel try to revive him.

"Dayshawn," he recalled saying. "It's Dad! I'm right here! Wake up! Come on! Let's do this!"

Dayshawn Smith died at 6:30 a.m. at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center (search).


Officer Smith, 41, said his son won trophies running track and playing football in high school but had dropped out and began drifting. He worked at a mall food court.

"He was just a person working to support himself, and trying to find himself out there, to find a place in society where he could be happy," Smith said.

Police on Tuesday were still searching for the man believed to be responsible, Rashawn Capers, 23, who faces murder and weapons charges. Capers also is accused of attempted murder in the stabbing of a 17-year-old during the fight, authorities said.


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,151820,00.html

Confed999

A huge loss for a family. An awful thing to witness. My best wishes to him and his family. I hope they catch the one who did it...

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Anon

The whole story behind this is that the cops kid and a friend intervened to save a man that was being brutally beat by 4 guys.
(If this is the same story i saw on the news last night, and i think it is)

Confed999

If that is so, then we all lost something. x 100

bonehead

Agreed.

Veni Vidi Vici

Another reason I would never want kids....

My heart goes out the the officer and his family.

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lemontree

The worst nightmare of a parent...to bury their own child. Sad.

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Cheers!...on the rocks!!

Samudra

Have no words.

A true citizen , he will be missed.

ChrisF202

Tragic, sons are supposed to bury their fathers.

New Jersey has ALOT of problems with crime, espically in like Newark, Ashbury Park, Bayonne, Jersey City, etc

Anon

NJ also is probably among the three most restrictive states in the US WRT gun control.

Coincidence?

I think not...

tankie

How tragic and sad.

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Speedy

Thread necromancy?

Southie

Very sad when a good citizen tries to intervene and ends up dead. My prayers go out to the family!

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