NYPD Officers Escort Son Of Slain Sergeant To Bus For Kindergarten

By Tom Knighton

NYPD Sgt. Paul Tuozzolo was gunned down last November while responding to a call of an estranged husband trying to enter a home after having threatened his wife. Tuozzolo was killed and another officer wounded.

Tuesday was the first day of kindergarten for Tuozzolo’s young son, an important day in almost any family. This is a day the slain officer would have stood outside, holding his son’s hand, waiting for the bus…only, a criminal had made that impossible.

But young Austin Tuozzolo didn’t have to wait alone for that first day of school by any stretch of the imagination.

An army of uniformed NYPD officers swept onto the doorsteps of slain Sgt. Paul Tuozzolo’s Long Island home Tuesday to send off his young son to his first day of school.

The touching moment was captured in a series of photos tweeted by the NYPD’s 43rd Precinct, where Tuozzolo worked when he was shot and killed in November 2016.

“This morning we continued our vow to #NeverForget Paul’s family, as we send off Austin on his 1st day of school,” NYPD Precinct 23 tweeted.

Little Austin, wearing a striped shirt and backpack, is pictured grinning from his front porch surrounded by dozens of his father’s …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms