Daily News | Temple president Jason Wingard on shooting of police officer: ‘We need help’
one of the university’s police officers had been shotWingard, who’s been on the job for all of 20 months, headed straight for Temple University Hospital with his 13-year-old son. Once there, Wingard ventured into a private room where the lifeless body of Officer— his head still bandaged from physicians’ efforts to save him — was being watched over by Fitzgerald’s distraught wife, Marissa.
Wingard also took time to visit Fitzgerald’s family Monday at their house. “I met with his parents and with Marissa his wife again and we talked about, his dedication to young boys — in particular of color — trying to be a role model for them, trying to be a mentor for them,” Wingard said. Fitzgerald “was so proud of Temple University. He was so proud of Philadelphia, an avid sports fan of all the teams.
Wingard said his son “picked up on that and wanted to know why such a tragic event didn’t rally people together to be sad together to support one another to make people feel better. He has been in other settings where there are funerals, and he has always marveled at how together everybody is — the hugging, the anecdotes of love and expressions of joy and love as you’re celebrating one another. That’s not what he saw at the hospital at Temple on Saturday night.
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