Saturday, September 13, 2014

A Cop Killer as Bad as Any

A municipal police officer in the New Jersey town of Oceanport died Friday after a one-year battle with cancer.

Any such passing is a sad occasion, but this one is particularly painful:  Officer Patrick Gornik was only 26 years of age.

He was a lifelong resident of Oceanport and had served with the borough's police department since January, 2013.  His diagnosis came only a few months after graduating from the academy, and his death is one of those that makes us curse cancer even more than before.