Via ABC:
Two Ohio police officers escorted the daughters of one of their fallen comrades to the girls’ homecoming dance this weekend after their father was shot and killed in the line of duty earlier this year.
“It was just amazing, I can’t even put it into words,” Anna Montgomery, the mother of Courtney, Brooklyn and Alycia Cottrell, told ABC News today.
Courtney, Brooklyn and Alycia lost their father, Officer Thomas Cottrell of the Danville Police Department, in January of this year, Montgomery said.
Montgomery said that she had just asked one of the officers if he could take the girls to the dance, and “they just ran with it,” using both an unmarked and marked patrol vehicle to escort the girls and their dates to their high school’s homecoming dance.
“They drove them to dinner and the dance, and then drove them home,” Montgomery said of the police officers.
“They kept just saying ‘It’s our honor, it’s our honor,'” Montgomery added, “The brothers in blue definitely came through for the girls.”