Tunnel to Towers will pay the mortgages of two FBI agents who were killed in Florida while chasing a crime suspect.
“It is so sad that so many of our officers give up on their lives,” Frank Siller, CEO of Tunnel to Towers, told America’s Newsroom when making the announcement on Friday.
Siller said that families left behind by such tragedies need to be taken care of because “they are out there giving us our freedom and our safe streets”.
“Just in the last few days, you had the two FBI agents you just talked about. We had a police officer killed in New Mexico, he buried a police officer in Sacramento. And, of course, a police officer was just killed in Mississippi,” said Siller.
FBI AGENTS DEAD IN FLORIDA: SUSTAINED DETERMINED USED DOORBELL CAMERA, ASSAULT RIFLE SHOT THROUGH THE CLOSED DOOR
Details continue to surface about the FBI’s fatal attack in Sunrise, Florida, which left the two officers dead, three others injured and resulted in the suspect’s death from suicide – the agency’s deadliest day since 9/11.
While the flags of the FBI Miami Field Office remained lowered on Wednesday, a new report indicated that the suspect used a doorbell camera and allegedly shot agents through the door.
The suspect, who was not immediately identified by the authorities, reportedly placed a camera on his doorbell and was using it to monitor agents when they approached his home, two unidentified police officers told the Miami Herald. The sniper would then have shot through the closed door at agents who had been using an assault rifle, leaving the door riddled with bullet holes, the report said.
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Siller asked Americans to consider committing a $ 11 a month pledge to the organization to help families of police and soldiers killed on the job.
“If I had a million people doing this, we could take care of every rescuer in this country who leaves behind a young family and Gold Star families who die in the line of duty, which is another story that just came out with a helicopter crash yesterday. So we have to take care of these families. “
Tunnel to Towers is a nonprofit organization that started supporting Gold Star families through minimal donations of $ 11 from people across the country. It was started in honor of Siller’s brother Stephen, who ran through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel towards the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, while using 60 pounds of equipment. Siller was one of 343 FDNY members who were killed that day.
Danielle Wallace of Fox News contributed to this report.