Officer Damian Cole wished he could be the hero for five-year-old Joshua Garcia.
A boy he’ll never forget.
Officer Cole received a call from Joshua’s mother on a Saturday reporting her son was missing. He immediately responded and searched for the boy.
He arrived at the Garcias’ neighbor’s backyard pool.
Joshua’s mom was already there, trying to find her soon in the pool.
The water was too murky to see.
It was dark and full of dirt and debris. They couldn’t see anything underneath it.
Officer Cole did what he had to do; he went into the murky water to search for the boy.
He suddenly stumbled on the boy’s body.
He rushed the body to the ground, called for the medical emergency team, and performed CPR.
After an hour of trying to revive the boy, the hospital called out his time of death. Joshua’s family was devastated, and so was Officer Cole.
For him, it was the most heartbreaking alarm call he ever had.
He cannot stop thinking about the boy and his family, and he promised he’d do anything to honor his memory.
The brothers found out that Officer Cole was a member of a group of policemen who dressed up as superheroes and visited children with cancer.
They thought it was the perfect send-off for their little brother who loved Spiderman.
Officer Cole kept his word.
On a Tuesday at Laurel Land Memorial Park, Officer Cole arrived in a Spiderman costume.
They saw how he rushed two minutes after the call, how he risked his life in the dirty pool to search for their son, and how he tried to revive him.
And they appreciated him more to say goodbye to the young boy in the best costume ever.
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