St. Petersburg officer shooting

On Monday night at about 10:30 p.m., Officer David S. Crawford was fatally shot near Eight Street and Third Avenue S. Officer Crawford was with the Police Department for 25 years. Officer Crawford was responding to a call to investigate a suspicious person. Officer Donald J. Ziglar also was called to check out the suspicious person. Ziglar found Crawford shot multiple times at close range near his car. At Bayfront Medical Center Officer Crawford was pronounced dead. Currently they are searching for the person who did this.

It is just another reminder of the risks these men and women go through every day. They risk their lives just to try and protect ours. I have the utmost respect for the people who do this especially since I have a family member that works in law enforcement. This is especially saddening considering that this is the third St. Petersburg officer killed in the line of duty in the past 30 days. No department should have go go through something like that. It is kind of scary for those around the Tampa Bay area considering less than a year ago two Tampa police officers were shot at a traffic stop.