Gripping red roses and American flags and holding aloft white candles against a black sky, more than 500 people stood vigil Friday night outside the Gilbertsville home of slain Plymouth Township Police Officer Bradley Fox on what would have been his 35th birthday.
Law enforcement officers, some in side-striped pants and starched white shirts, others in dark blue from head to toe, protectively surrounded the driveway where Fox's pregnant widow, holding her infant daughter on her lap, sat on a folding chair and sobbed. An honor guard of Plymouth motorcycle police roared down the street; the officers touched their right hands to the top of their helmets, then pointed to the sky. They dismounted and stood in formation as Plymouth police chaplain Nick Salios led a psalm-filled service of remembrance and reflection for the officer shot to death Thursday after a hit-and-run car stop.
