Florida cop, Marine and Army Reserve veteran hailed at funeral for seeing everyone as family marinecorpstimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from marinecorpstimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Officer Jesse Madsen hailed at funeral for seeing everyone as family
Thousands attended services Tuesday for the Tampa police officer, who died saving strangers from a wrong-way driver on I-275.
Â
Â
Uniformed pallbearers carry away the casket of Master Patrol Officer Jesse Madsen following his funeral Tuesday at Idlewild Baptist Church in Lutz. Madsen, who served in the Marines and Army Reserves, was to be interred at the Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell. [ DIRK SHADD | Times ]
LUTZ â Officer Jesse Madsen considered everyone he met to be family.
He was born to a young mother who loved him but knew she couldnât care for him, so he went home from the hospital with an adoptive family. After a few weeks, the family decided his skin was too dark and he was given up again.