Family, first responders grieve death of 2-year old run over
KSLA News 12 Shreveport, Louisiana News Weather
Source: KSLA News 12
SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) -Shreveport police have released the name of the 2-year-old child who was fatally injured after his mother accidentally ran him over on Thursday afternoon. And as the family grieves so too are first responders who must confront such trauma day in and day out.
The accident happened at 3:40 p.m. at a home in the 100 block of East Prospect Street. Police say 32-year-old Jennifer Peters pulled her SUV forward in her driveway and ran over 2-year-old Colton Stolzer.
Stolzer was taken to University Health, where he was pronounced dead. The crash remains under investigation. And KSLA News 12 has now learned that several emergency responders have received counseling after this latest tragedy.
Emergency responders are often the first on the scene and sometimes the last to talk about 'their' feelings because their attention is focused on helping others first. Fred Sanders, the Assistant to the chief of the Shreveport Fire Department explained to us, "Even though the public may see firefighters as heroes, I mean we are humans that have feelings."
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Source: KSLA News 12, Jeff Ferrel, 'Family, first responders grieve death of 2-year old run over', Oct 03, 2014
