Fellow police officers and family friends honour Ridge Meadows RCMP Const. Rick O'Brien, who was killed while executing a search warrant on Friday in Coquitlam, B.C.
Flowers and photos of Const. Rick O'Brien are pictured outside the Ridge Meadows RCMP detachment in Maple Ridge, B.C., on Saturday, Sept. 23.
According to Jeanette Martin, who knew Rick's wife due to both of them owning businesses in Langley, B.C., the officer was originally from Ottawa and formerly an education assistant."His focus in life was always about people and making things better for everyone," she told CBC News. The superintendent in charge of O'Brien's RCMP detachment in Ridge Meadows, B.C., Wendy Mehat, said the constable loved visiting schools and supporting his detachment through drives and sporting events.
Const. Rick O'Brien, 51, is being remembered as a person who made 'things better for everyone,' according to a family friend. Foundation chair Kevin Halwa said police families often live with the constant fear their loved one may not return from work at the end of their shift."It's tough enough sending a loved one out the door to go serve Canadians in a dangerous occupation," Halwa, an RCMP staff sergeant in Sylvan Lake, Alta., told CBC News. "All police officers everywhere really understand that only by the grace of God are we able to to get home each night.
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