“This man walked into a room, and everyone loved him,” said Angelina Paxton, a friend who traveled to Memphis from California for the memorial service.
. Also fired: two Memphis Fire Department emergency medical workers and a lieutenant. And more discipline could be coming.
Nichols was the baby of their family, born 12 years after his closest siblings. He had a 4-year-old son and worked hard to better himself as a father, his family said. Friends at a memorial service last week described him as joyful and kind, quick with a smile, often silly.
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