We will add our voice to the hundreds or thousands around our community who are very saddened at the death of a Wyandotte County sheriff’s deputy, Patrick Rohrer, and the critical wounding of another today.
We send our condolences to the families of the deputy who lost his life and the deputy who was injured. Words cannot express our sadness upon learning of this shooting. We hope the community will show its support for the deputies’ families now and in the future.
It is a mark of a civilized society to approach their problems in a nonviolent way. Violence is unnecessary, we believe, and more efforts are needed to help individuals find nonviolent solutions to problems. We deplore the glorification of violence by some. We hope there is a renewed effort by parents to teach the youth of our community, at a young age, nonviolent means of settling differences.
We would hope everyone would do a good deed this week in memory of Deputy Rohrer.