The 24-year-old Brooklyn, Illinois, police officer was fatally injured early Wednesday while trying to stop a car fleeing from a nightclub in the St. Louis Metro East area.
He was actually my hero : Fallen Brooklyn police officer s parents say he was living his dream He lightened up everybody s life when he showed up. Words can t express how proud he made us, said Brian Pierce Sr. Author: Robert Townsend Updated: 10:47 PM CDT August 4, 2021
BROOKLYN, Ill. His parents say ever since he was a child Brian Pierce Jr. dreamed of becoming a police officer. He played with fire trucks and police cars all the time. Dad and I knew when he was just three years old that this is where we were going. He wasn t a typical kid, said Tammy Pierce, Brian s mom.
Flags flew at half-staff at the Brooklyn Police Department in Illinois on Wednesday following the death of a police officer who authorities say was trying to stop a driver from eluding capture.
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Adam Weig knows what it’s like to face a tough opponent. His teams played several of them when Weig was guiding the boys’ basketball program at South Hardin High School in Eldora.
Weig was head coach for seven seasons, from 2010-17. During that time, the Tigers never confronted a challenge like the one that Weig endured in the early morning hours of Thanksgiving Day 2019.
While sleeping, he went into cardiac arrest.
Sammi Weig woke up around 1 AM and heard her then-fiancé Adam struggling to breathe. When he wouldn t respond to her calling out his name, Sammi dialed 9-1-1. As she spoke with the dispatcher while waiting for the paramedics to arrive, Adam s breathing worsened and Sammi could not detect a pulse. She started chest compressions.