“You had no right, you are a coward, you are evil, I know what you did to my husband,” the mother of four said.
“You shouldn’t even be allowed to breathe because my husband is not breathing, but you get to have air flowing through your lungs.”and is facing charges of murder, murder of a law enforcement officer, robbery, carjacking and illegal weapons possession over Saturday’s fatal shooting of the 31-year-old officer.
“He took a family man, he took a father, he took a son, he took a brother, he took a nephew, you took so much,” Marissa told the local station. “Our lives will never be the same.”Christopher David Fitzgerald’s family is grieving, as his wife said his kids “miss their dad terribly.”The devastated widow said she has “a lot of praying to do because I can’t forgive him right now,” noting that both she and her late husband are religious people.
She said Christopher was “a very hard worker, he loved to do his job, but the best job he loved to do was being a father to those kids.” Marissa said Christopher chose to be a police officer as a way of dedicating himself to serving the community.
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