An officer is drawing praise for dressing up like Spider-Man for a 5-year-old boy’s funeral. A few weeks ago, a Fort Worth, Texas, boy named Joshua Garcia went missing. Officer Damon Cole went into a murky swimming pool to search for him, and he managed to pull the boy out.
Before he arrived on the scene, Joshua’s mother had been looking for the child.
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Even though Cole pulled the boy out, paramedics weren’t able to revive him. Joshua was wearing a Spider-man T-shirt when he died.
“There’s not a minute that has gone by that I haven’t thought about Joshua and his family,” Cole was quoted as saying by KTLA.
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Even though Cole received accolades for his bravery on his Facebook page, he said it was “the most heartbreaking call of my 16-year police career.”
Garcia was buried at Laurel Land Memorial Park on Tuesday.
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His family asked Cole, who was planning on attending, to pay tribute to the lad, so he dressed up as Spider-Man. According to Buzzfeed, the family told him that Joshua really did believe he was the comic book hero and had “spider powers.”
“This honestly had to be the biggest honor I have ever had in my 16 years as a police officer,” Cole wrote on Facebook. “I was so touched that the family did this for me. I had the family sign the plaque for me and I will cherish it for the rest of my life.”
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