(for Krista and Josh and for Cathy Sellars)
A class act, indeed. Although he's incorrect (it will NEVER be okay) I am very glad that Joshua Malloy was there for Cathy Sellars.
Thank you, Officer Malloy for your humanity and decency.
A life lost, another damaged
By ERIN SULLIVAN
Published January 11, 2007
For anyone who comes here and would like to see the beautiful love displayed to Krista Sellars in a You Tube video, here it is:
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LAND O'LAKES - Traffic backed up for miles on U.S. 41 as grim-faced troopers worked their gruesome duty on one of the coldest nights of the year.
A teenage girl was dead.
A woman pulled her car onto the median, jumped out and ran toward the flashing blue lights.
"Do you know who was in the accident?" she asked, her voice frantic.
She was pretty, blonde, petite, in a thin black sweater and black slacks. Her eyes were desperate. Her words tumbled.
"Do you know if the ambulance has been here? Has it left?"
She ran toward the troopers, her steps punctuated with, "OhmyGod, OhmyGod."
She told a trooper her daughter's name. He left to get his clipboard. She waited, alone, hugging herself against the cold.
Trooper Joshua Malloy, 26, returned and stood before the woman.
It was her daughter, he said.
Krista Sellars was gone.
Cathy Sellars sank to her knees, and Trooper Malloy sank with her, holding her. She kneeled on the cold grass and doubled over, her arms clutching her stomach. Malloy gently rubbed her back. Above the roar of traffic, he could be heard saying, in a tender voice, "It will be okay. You'll be okay."
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