• Font Size    
E-mail

Close Window E-mail This Page

MDTA Officer's Family Speaks About His Death

Required fields are marked with an asterisk(*)

The information you provide will be used only to send the requested e-mail and will not be used to send any other e-mail communications. Read more in our Privacy Policy

Send E-mail

   Print     Share +   
Jan 3, 2008 9:51 am US/Eastern

MDTA Officer's Family Speaks About His Death

BALTIMORE (WJZ/AP) ― Maryland Transportation Authority Police Officer Courtney Brooks has been posthumously promoted to corporal.

Corporal Brooks was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver New Year's Eve while he was directing trucks around Baltimore's Inner Harbor celebration.

"It doesn't even seem real that he won't be here any longer, that we can't talk with him.  He's going to be missed a lot," Brooks' 17-year-old daughter Casey told Richard Sher. 

Corporal Brooks, his family said, had a great sense of humor.  "Just being around him made you smile."

Police have arrested the woman who owns the SUV that killed Corporal Brooks, but she has not been charged in the officer's death.

Casey says her father would want to be remembered as "a cop just doing his job."

The funeral will be held Monday at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in North Baltimore.

A viewing is planned this weekend at the Vaughn C. Greene Funeral Home in Randallstown.

(© 2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

You need the latest Flash player to view video content.
Click here to download.

Click here to bypass this detection if you already have the latest Flash Player.

Local News

Top News Stories

© MMIX, CBS Corporation. All Rights Reserved.