But they did, because one of theirs, Ryan Phillip Hendrix, was one of more than 300 officers who died in the line of duty in 2020. The traveling tribute to fallen officers pulled into Jackson Park on Monday afternoon to honor the deputy who was gunned down in the line of duty last Sept. 10.
“He was the one next to me, the one under me,” said older brother Tim, an English teacher in Oman who was visiting his parents with his wife and two boys. “It’s sad to see, that there are so many people. You think of the families that are represented by those faces.”