According to WTVR, officers Aaron Grayson and Kenneth Peterson of the Richmond Police Fugitives and Firearms Initiative were called to the scene of a fatal shooting Wednesday. After responding, the officers noticed several children at a nearby playground. Peterson and Grayson walked over to the kids to comfort them and distract them from the tragic scene.
"He was telling me how he can ride without his training wheels and then his chain popped off," Grayson told WTVR. "He looked at me and he goes, 'I don't know how to fix this.' So I said, 'I'm going to help you.'"
"One thing we like to preserve with children is their innocence and the purity that comes along with that," Peterson told WTVR. "We can't control everything that happens in the neighborhood at a certain particular point in time … but we also want to reinforce and encourage the good things about policing and also the good things about being a citizen in the community."
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