[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8376]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   HOUSTON POLICE OFFICER KEVIN WILL

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, peace officers are the last strand of 
wire in the fence between the law and the lawless. They go forward each 
day to protect the people and risk their own lives doing so.
  Very early Sunday morning, one of Houston's finest, Officer Kevin 
Will, was investigating a hit-and-run accident when he was run over and 
killed by a speeding vehicle that had blazed past police barriers. 
Immediately before being struck, Officer Will yelled for an accident 
witness to jump out of the way, thus saving the citizen's life just 
before the officer's life was stolen from him.
  Officer Will was 38 years of age and had been a Houston police 
officer 2 years. He leaves behind a pregnant wife and two step-
children.
  The driver of the speeding vehicle ignored the safety lights of 
police cruisers at the accident scene. He was drunk, charged with 
intoxication, manslaughter of a police officer, evading arrest, and 
possession of cocaine. The accused killer was in the United States 
illegally, having been deported at least once before returning to 
become one of the lawless.
  And that's just the way it is.

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