One of the officers killed in Dallas graduated from high school in Massachusetts
Michael Krol
One of the five police officers killed by sniper shootings Thursday night in Dallas graduated from high school in Massachusetts in the mid-1990s.
Michael Krol, 40, graduated from East Longmeadow High School in 1994 after his family moved to Massachusetts for his father’s job, a relative told WWLP.com.
After graduation, the family moved back to their native Michigan, where Krol lived until moving to Dallas in 2007 to pursue his dream of becoming a police officer, according to the Globe.
Krol was “a caring person and had always wanted to help others,” his mother said Friday.
“He knew the danger of the job but he never shied away from his duty as a police officer. He was a great caring person and wanted to help people. A wonderful son, brother, uncle, nephew and friend,” said Susan Ehlke, from Redford, Michigan, in a prepared statement.
Krol’s family said in a statement that he moved to Dallas to become a police officer in 2007 because Detroit wasn’t hiring. He was a deputy at the Wayne County jail before the move.
Meanwhile, family members told the Detroit Free Press that Krol was single with no children, but had a girlfriend in Dallas. He graduated from the Dallas Police Academy in 2008.
“He was a guy that was serving others,” said Brian Schoenbaechler, Krol’s brother-in-law. “And he gave his life in service of others.”
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Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.
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