Doing a good deed for an 80-year-old woman
By Emily Sweeney Globe Staff,Updated January 29, 2021, 12:23 p.m.
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Every day, police officers respond to reports of all sorts of events and nonevents, most of which never make the news. Here is a sampling of lesser-known â but no less noteworthy â incidents from police log books (a.k.a. blotters) in our suburbs.
BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY
On Dec. 23,
Lowell Police Officer Andrew Daly and Firefighter Stephen Lyle went out of their way to help an 80-year-old woman after a vehicle ran over her bag of groceries. The womanâs sibling later wrote to Lowell Police Superintendent Raymond Kelly Richardson to express appreciation for their good deed, and the Lowell Police Department tweeted out a copy of the thank-you note. âAn out of control driver drove over my sisterâs grocery bag,â the letter stated. âThey came quickly to handle the situation, asked my sister for her name, etc. Later that day these two wonderful officers arrived at [her] apartment door with a bag full of groceries!! I do not have their names, but I very much hope you are able to find out and tell them that all of us ⦠are so grateful for their kindness. In these trying times it is uplifting to see such beyond the call of duty thoughtfulness.â