One of the police officers who was shot Thursday night was a veteran who had been deployed to Iraq three times before he was murdered in the streets of Dallas. According to statements delivered by the Dallas Chief of Police James Spiller, Thompson was a “great” man who “served admirably” for seven years.
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DART officer Brent Thompson was confirmed to be one of the fatalities in the Dallas police shootings in which 11 officers were shot during protests against police use of excessive force.
He is the first DART officer to be killed in the line of duty since the department was established in 1989.
DART services in downtown Dallas were suspended following the shooting. WFAA sister station WXYZ in Detroit confirms the identity of another DPD officer killed, Michael Krol, who had worked for DPD for nine years after moving to Texas from MI. “Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends in this most hard time”.
Brent Thompson was the first person killed in the line of duty in the 27-year history of the Dallas Area Rapid Transit authority.
“This isn’t supposed to happen”, Martinez said Friday as she mourned her nephew. “He loved being a police officer”. He knew the danger of the job but he never shied away from his duty as a police officer.
“RTA Transit Police will continue to do what they do every day, to enforce the laws that protect not just our customers, but all the people of this city and region”. Thompson, 43, a almost seven-year veteran of the transit force, got married in the last two weeks. Thompson had worked for DART police since 2009.
Krol, a MI native, moved to Dallas in 2007 to join the city’s police department. “I am constantly looking for different ways to serve the department, this helps to keep my work from becoming sedentary and boring”, the officer said in his LinkedIn summary. He advised Afghan officers how to avoid an ambush as part of the training.
Love you brother. Couldn’t be prouder.
He attended the police academy at Navarro College in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and later taught classes there, according to his LinkedIn profile. She had been told to go to Parkland Memorial Hospital.
“At this moment I’m still at the hospital … to see him be moved to the medical examiner’s office”, he said, adding that he needed “prayers to get through this”. A husband and father, he leaves behind a 10-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son.
“He comes to the United States to protect people here”, his father, Rick Zamarripa, told The Post. Zamarripa had joined the Dallas Police Department five years ago after serving three tours in Iraq with the Navy, his father told the Washington Post.
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He served in the military reserves as well as working as a Dallas policeman.
