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| Fallen Fla. L.E. Officers Honored 30 Years Later |
| By officer.com - Desiree Stennett |
| Published: 01/14/2014 |
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By the time the gunfire inside the Orange County Courthouse was finally silenced on Jan. 10, 1984, Bailiff William "Arnie" Wilkerson was dead and Bailiff Harry Dalton and Corrections Officer Mark Parker were critically injured. Parker's younger sister, Colleen, was only 16 at the time. But because of her upbringing -- with an Orange County Sheriff's Office lieutenant for a father and social worker for a mother -- she learned at a young age the risk law-enforcement officers face each day. "I knew the bad stuff," Colleen Parker said Friday after a remembrance ceremony for her brother, Mark Parker, Dalton, and Wilkerson on the 30th anniversary of the shooting. "You don't want it to happen to your family but you had to know that it was a possibility. And I did." Colleen Parker still remembers when her father's best friend brought her to meet her family at Orlando Regional Medical Center. Her brother, only 19 at the time, had a bullet lodged in his spine and although he was still alive, his family knew he was in bad shape. Read More. |
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