Officer Jeremy Henwood was a man who worked to save lives, but a young boy's life is the one he touched moments before his brutal murder.
"My whole life I'll remember him," says Daveon, a 13-year-old boy who was one of the last people to speak to the officer.
It was a small random act of kindness that will not be forgotten.
While in McDonald's, the officer encountered the young boy who asked him for ten cents. When Henwood asked the him what the money was for, Daveon told him it was to buy cookies. The officer bought the sweet treat for him.
Daveon says that he was hesitant to approach the tall officer in uniform.
"He said 'what do you want to be when you grow up?' and I said 'an NBA star,'" commented Daveon. "He said you gotta work hard to be an NBA star, and I said, 'I know.'"
Only minutes after the encounter with Daveon, Officer Henwood was gunned down in his patrol car when 23-year-old Dejon White went on a shooting spree. White also shot a man in the face outside of an In and Out Burger restaurant.
"I'm the last one to talk to him that day, I'm the one to get good advice from him. I'm gonna take that to my heart," says Daveon. "He did his work in life. He served for his country, so God made my dream come true to get advice from a person above my level like that to get advice like that. God makes this happen for a reason."
A random act of kindness followed only three minutes later by a random act of violence.
"My whole life I'll remember him," says Daveon, a 13-year-old boy who was one of the last people to speak to the officer.
It was a small random act of kindness that will not be forgotten.
While in McDonald's, the officer encountered the young boy who asked him for ten cents. When Henwood asked the him what the money was for, Daveon told him it was to buy cookies. The officer bought the sweet treat for him.
Daveon says that he was hesitant to approach the tall officer in uniform.
"He said 'what do you want to be when you grow up?' and I said 'an NBA star,'" commented Daveon. "He said you gotta work hard to be an NBA star, and I said, 'I know.'"
Only minutes after the encounter with Daveon, Officer Henwood was gunned down in his patrol car when 23-year-old Dejon White went on a shooting spree. White also shot a man in the face outside of an In and Out Burger restaurant.
"I'm the last one to talk to him that day, I'm the one to get good advice from him. I'm gonna take that to my heart," says Daveon. "He did his work in life. He served for his country, so God made my dream come true to get advice from a person above my level like that to get advice like that. God makes this happen for a reason."
A random act of kindness followed only three minutes later by a random act of violence.
Just moments before he was fatally wounded in an unprovoked attack, a San Diego police officer performed one last act of kindness; he bought a child food while buying his own dinner.
Jeremy Henwood, 36, stopped at the McDonald's in the 3800-block of Fairmount Avenue at 5:24 p.m. on Aug. 6. Surveillance video released Tuesday shows Henwood speaking with the boy and getting their food shortly before leaving the store at 5:27 p.m.
Shortly after 5:30 p.m., Henwood was shot while sitting inside his patrol car at the corner of University Avenue and 45th Street. Henwood had only made it six blocks from the McDonalds; it would be the last place he was seen alive.
Witnesses said a man pulled up on this side of Henwood’s vehicle and shot him with a shotgun in what officials say was an unprovoked attack.
Henwood passed away at Scripps Mercy Hospital at 1:42 a.m. on Aug. 7.
Henwood, who served with SDPD for four years, was assigned to the Mid-City Division. He was also a Captain in the United States Marine Corps Reserves and had recently returned from deployment. During a memorial service in Point Loma on Aug. 12, Henwood was promoted to the rank of major.
The suspect in Henwood’s shooting, whom police have identified as Dejon Marquee White, 23, was killed by police after a standoff outside a City Heights apartment building almost an hour after Henwood was shot.
Jeremy Henwood, 36, stopped at the McDonald's in the 3800-block of Fairmount Avenue at 5:24 p.m. on Aug. 6. Surveillance video released Tuesday shows Henwood speaking with the boy and getting their food shortly before leaving the store at 5:27 p.m.
Shortly after 5:30 p.m., Henwood was shot while sitting inside his patrol car at the corner of University Avenue and 45th Street. Henwood had only made it six blocks from the McDonalds; it would be the last place he was seen alive.
Witnesses said a man pulled up on this side of Henwood’s vehicle and shot him with a shotgun in what officials say was an unprovoked attack.
Henwood passed away at Scripps Mercy Hospital at 1:42 a.m. on Aug. 7.
Henwood, who served with SDPD for four years, was assigned to the Mid-City Division. He was also a Captain in the United States Marine Corps Reserves and had recently returned from deployment. During a memorial service in Point Loma on Aug. 12, Henwood was promoted to the rank of major.
The suspect in Henwood’s shooting, whom police have identified as Dejon Marquee White, 23, was killed by police after a standoff outside a City Heights apartment building almost an hour after Henwood was shot.
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