Metro-Dade Police Department, Florida
End of Watch Wednesday, May 16, 1979
Reflections for Police Officer William Coleman Cook
The top and bottom of Dade County was secured and preserved by your heroic actions that tragic day, Officer Cook and yet you'll be remembered for integrity, dignity and honesty all connected to your character, commitments and convictions all true and trusted. Our way of life and its humbly blessed pursuits shall remain as your unselfish and unbending soul forever in your family's hearts and as they continue your legacy. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. An angel inscribed in the history books of Dade County police heroes and heroines. The sacrifice you made was one of virtue, sanctity, onus and respect always so esteemed and loyal. Every watch was performed with class, decency and steadfast dedication and tenacity.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 8, 2025
The constitution allows peaceful protects as the first amendment grants us all free speech so long as things remain civil. Officer Cook, you will forevermore be saluted and humbly and solemnly honored as a dignified man of integrity and honorable character. And for this the citizens of Dade County were mighty blessed and fortunate to have a loyal and esteemed public servant of pride, virtue and sacred trust and truth in their midst. You left no doubt that your inspired heroic legacy stands as a bar fo rothers to follow in. Big tasks and big shoes to fill for certain. This is precisely why you are important within the realms of Dade County history. Badge#1664 was about appreciation and respect. It was regarding a gentleman of God devout and determined to serve with a passionate purpose as we have stability and security because of your unselfish and unwavering efficiency distributed throughout the community where you lived, got married and worshipped. But an angel through and through beloved and full of hopeful humbleness and goodwill all accentuated for a positive result. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 7, 2025
The pressure that is placed upon the heroic and angelic shoulders of all who serve and protect a given community is so great and the onuses are just as such. The Central Division is where you spent six years of forming a unique bond with the folks and comrades here in Dade County, to be exact the Gladesview section of Liberty City where your sacrifice, Officer Cook, was given on May 16,1979. A day your beloved and treasured family members will never ever forget. You were a man with compassion , unselfish dedication, decency and desire. They were supported by the pillars of faith and effort combine dwith humbly blessed virtue, honesty, dignity and angelic integrity. A gentleman of character,conviction and commitments all truly trustworthy. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 7, 2025
Public servants are those heroically esteemed and loyal warriors of humanity that relies upon their wisdom, virtue and vision, all valuable and all cherished. You were a cherishedsoul, Officer Cook, with a heart and spirit of divine inspiration whose broad connections of integrity, honor and dignity graced your blessed family, colleagues and friends for twenty-five years of dedication, fruition and determination. When one of grit, tenacity and truth is suddenly take by violence the world stops and ponders all the reasons as to why your humbly blessed and angelic character, commitment and conviction was usurped. You will always be fondly and solemnly remembered and saluted for trustworthiness and the sincerest of unselfish, unwavering gratitude, diligence and the reverence of vigilance. Dade County was humbled and blessed with your protective services, Officer Cook. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Paths and trails paved by your faithful perseverance, effort and proficient resiliency.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 7, 2025
Faithful, devoted and resourceful in your heroism, Officer Cook. Dade County was your beloved community where your life and professional career took off. Honesty, dignity and integrity went with you on patrols wherever peace and stability needed to be replacing violence and unending evil. A sacrifice that humanity won't forget and neither will your family. A steadfast gentleman of gallantry, character and commitment all convictions truthful and trustworthy. The paths and trails were blazed and paved with esteem, virtue and loyalty that was sacredly involved in your most humblest of essential endeavors. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and heroic angel.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 6, 2025
I apologize, Officer Cook, I meant to say never to be forgotten as we all honor and solemnly salute you for heroic, humble and blessed heart and soul that was dignified and full of compassionate integrity, class, character and charming commitment to excel through your earthliest of endeavors. An angel to be cherished forever whenever you went into your beloved Dade County community to preserve, protect and to be as proficient at at times. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 4, 2025
Generous and with a gigantic heroic heart and soul, Officer Cook, you served and protected Dade County and its residents with all your humbly blessed and virtuous honor, dignity, character and integrity. This is why we have a semblance of peace, unity and serenity for mankind never to be remembered and to be solemnly saluted for humility and unselfish morals, respect, diligence and the vigilance of a mighty proud warrior who remains esteemed as well as a loyal member of your department forever an angel. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Your family has always missed you as you were truly a truthful and authentic human being accentuated in everything that is valued and cherished by humanity. Your badge and uniform were donned with desire, devotion, decency and steadfast dedication.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 4, 2025
Tuned in and tenacious all the time, Officer Cook. You are forever cherished by your family and Dade County for your proficient exploits of effort, honor, integrity and dignity. We salute you for sincere unselfish heroic truth and trust all distributed throughout your beloved community where peace and safe trails shall remain. Character, commitment and conviction were all humility, heart and soul. Rest in peace my neighbor, angel, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 3, 2025
The chapters and verses of both courage and virtue, Officer Cook, were complete with heroic honor, integrity and dignity which served and saved the folks of Dade County from a much worse fate. Your life and career though cut short were supplied with unselfish heart, soul and a spirit of adventure. The trails and paths you paved for others were succinctly true and clearly well defined and most notably trustworthy as your family's beloved guardian angel of tenacity and ferocity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero of conviction, commitment and the pride of humility all blessed supporting the posts of resourceful proficiency, diligence and respectful vigilance all faithfully dedicated and administered with goodwill and efficiency.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 2, 2025
The story of a hero's life and career never leaves us and is always not out of sight. We remember you, Officer Cook and your loyal, treasured and esteemed family members have carried your humbly blessed legacy of authentic honesty, solid dignity and special integrity because of the service and passion by which you maintained law and order for Dade County folks. A really noble man of wisdom, virtue and vision spread far and wide throughout the venues you policed with commitment, intuition and staunch convictions all true and trustworthy. Forever a priceless angel hovering above and may the men and women who have succeeded you be true to their scopes of comprehending their onuses all sacred just as were your missions of devotion, dedication, heart and faith. All soul and spirit revolving around your humble endeavors. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 1, 2025
The process is in the progress meaning fighting crime is everyone's burden but public service professionals need to accomplish more using all the revenues and resources of tact, truth and tenacity and be as fearless as possible. At times apprehension can occur and for those composed and bred in honor, integrity and dignity their characters take on a more central definition. You surely, certainly and most humbly, Officer Cook, heroically rescued the persons of Dade County from an evil and ignominious individual. You did everything by the book with the highest standards of class, dedication and decency. You'll forevermore be noted and remembered as an angel so intuitive and fruitful in all your earthly and worldly pursuits. The legend of your glorious name and its cherished capability will never be forgotten and saluted for the vehicles of values, trust and truth, morals and the vision and wisdom so important to making a world a safer venue. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. The wings of a man blessed yet so very missed by his family and colleagues and that you have been, Officer Cook, very dearly. Just a very precious, compassionate and special human being.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
July 31, 2025
The pureness of life is so essential to our endeavors to put forth pursuits of peace and journeys of meaningful existence. Everything you achieved, Officer Cook, was done so with humility and blessed virtue from your heroic heart, soul and spirit as you strived to create a more permeable balance here in Dade County where liberty, stability and serenity really matter. Just can't sweep everything under the rug things more become decent and serene. A man and a truly trusted gentleman of dignity, character and integrity always giving the sacrifices of esteem and loyalty of an angel. Your family and comrades have not and will never forsake you always saluting you and paying the price for our freedoms. The wings God gave you forty-six years ago may you soar in perfection as you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
July 31, 2025
Everything we do in our lives is sacred in one way shape or another. Your missions and journeys in this world many decades ago, Officer Cook, represented true passion, trustworthy convictions and the honor by which you fought and sacrificed for Dade County with every breath of character, dignity and loyal integrity all esteemed and forever cherished. You were still young at twenty-five and had many, many more decades ahead of both you and your beloved Karen and family. The responsibilities placed upon your humbly blessed heart and soul were from God and seeing how devout, faithful and resiliently valiant you were we will salute your vision and inner strength all unselfish and all unwavering now and for eternity as your family's golden guardian angel. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
July 31, 2025
Nobility, capability and ability are the pillars of honesty, dignity and integrity. And your character, Officer Cook, heroic and unassuming, unselfish and unwavering in your patrols, preservation and protection of our peace, freedom and stability here in Dade County where your sacrifice has stood solemn and blessed all these decades later. Loyalty, esteem and being cherished while being saluted for commitment and conviction all truly trustworthy as your family and department's angel of virtue, vision and sacred versatility during your faithful journeys and missions of goodwill and resourcefulness and with outstanding endeavor given every watch. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
July 30, 2025
Meant to say, Officer Cook, it was allegiance, diligence and vigilance that marked the trails and paths of your valued and storied heroic life preserving the liberty, stability and freedom for all Dade County to live by. The umbrellas were certainly spread wide with unselfish, unwavering and unending resiliency, resolve and the humanely blessed virtue that truly was endearing, enhancing and uplifted in its ways of wonder. Only wished my neighbor, friend, hero and angel that God had allowed to see your retirement with Karen and yourself married for fifty years. A noted and noble life and career of faithfulness, fruition, the integrity, dignity, character and honesty of a loyal and esteemed warrior cherished forevermore.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
July 29, 2025
The blessings and strength of a hero's noble, humane and humble heart and soul are the key traits, characteristics and most highly sought after essentials in performing your dangerous yet faithfully trusted duties. You did everything with joy, happiness, compassion and unselfish loyalty and treasured esteem, Officer Cook and the people of Dade County have peace and stability because of your pursuits and accentuated character, class commitments and legendary convictions. Journeys and missions true and bold undertaken for the sake of goodwill, liberty and hope for a brighter mankind. As much as you are tremendously missed by both your beloved family, colleagues of your time and many friends and acquaintances, Officer Cook, you'll not be forgotten and will be honored for your inner spirit of dignity and integrity the articulation of a forthright gentleman who was gallant until your last breath. Your sacrifice was not only of virtue and substance, it allegiance, diligence and vigilance along with unwavering, unrelenting and uncompromising respect earned from your professional peers of justice who sought freedom and safety as much as you. Rest in peace my neighbor, angel, hero and friend. God is good to us and keeps watching over your spirit so bright at the time and yet so gentle and adored.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
July 29, 2025
Character conceals a person's true and trusted commitments and convictions. Your class, desire and decency, Officer Cook, reflected your inner integrity, dignity and heroic honesty. They all shared in the burdens and onuses of serving and in protecting the residents of Dade County your humbly blessed and beloved community where you gave your life for peace, freedom and safety to assist us in our daily lives and pursuits. You just should have been allowed to continue living your life with Karen with your future bright as the sun above. A faithful gentleman of devotion, gumption and fulfillment who followed his aspirations and dreams where a shining star of energy, effort and dedication reigned down. Now as a blessed and unselfish angel of goodwill and humility may your sweet, esteemed and loyal spirit, heart and soul rest in peace with you my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
July 28, 2025
A darling man with decency, desire and determination. They were your tools of your profession, Officer Cook, when added to the virtues of honesty, integrity and dignity all saved Dade County from danger and violence. When character, commitment and conviction are cut short because of wickedness which ended your young life and all the promise of an angel well nothing can bring you back. The salt of the earth of a gentleman of class, concern and dedication. Truth and trust installed our very safety, security and serenity back into our community. You are saluted for valor and unselfish, unwavering and unrelenting heroism. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
July 27, 2025
You were a man, a gentleman and a legendary hero and warrior here in Dade County, Officer Cook. Your life and career leaves no doubt as to the human being you were and what you were to your dearly adoring family members and colleagues. The class, the compassion, the kindness and unselfish and unwavering dimension of dignity, integrity and honesty funneling through each watch, every patrol where our peace, unitedness and stability was uplifted and enhanced greatly. All are never going to be forgotten only saluted humbly and solemnly for providing the wicks of awareness and virtue all undertaken during your missions and journeys of faithfulness, trust and true allegiance. The trails and paths of character, commitment and conviction were blazed for other angelic souls to follow in. Ingenuity, intuition and intelligence were what defined your professionalism and proficient endeavors. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Angels of pride, esteem and loyalty shall remain blessed and eternally watche dover by Our Maker.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
July 27, 2025
Sorrow, tragedy and the healing that comes with the grief all are a part of hero's story and professional life. That they were for you, Officer Cook, so young and humbly brave in the essentiality of honesty, integrity and dignity. Dade County was served and protected by a sincerely dedicated and faithful man of God. No doubt your family and comrades will forever solemnly remember your service and legacy to be saluted for every word of character, effort and efficiency. It's truly trustworthy commitment and conviction that patrolled your beloved community where freedom and stability must reign. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
July 26, 2025
Your vest helped but tragically that awful bullet missed it by an inch or less real, real tragic and evil what happened to you forty-six years ago, Officer Cook. Dade County was where you started and where those battles were fought for our very stability and serenity and you'll always be treasured by your family for loyalty, esteem and the gratitude of the residents. For having heroically blessed and unselfish dignity, character and integrity may Our Creator watch over your honest, truthful and trustworthy heart, soul and spirit. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
July 25, 2025
Your family, department and the entire police world have missed you very much and very dearly, Officer Cook. A loss that saddened humanity and mankind of a loving brother, uncle, son and darling husband to Karen. Though Dade County is where your brave name and heroic legacy shall endure forever as your family's humbly blessed angel of dignity, character and honorable integrity all subsequently aided your battles and fights over violence, evil and fierce wickedness. Domestic violence is a major problem today that threatens society from its healthy and normal pursuits of life and cherished happiness. Yours, Officer Cook, was taken during a domestic dispute as you voluntarily answered a call your final one on this earth and endeavored to create a peaceful resolution if only Mr. Pearsall had dropped his weapon and listened to you and your colleagues and friends that fateful afternoon of May 16,1979. Officer DiGenova and Officer Edgerton were assigned that essential mission to restore calm you came with your last partner, Reserve Officer Scott Lincoln. You'll forever be remembered and saluted for being an angelic hero. Your name and legacy are stamped and sealed by outstanding and truly trusted commitment, character and convictions all sincerely appreciated. Badge#1664 was blessed with abundant and sacred virtue, responsibility, loyalty, diligence and vigilance from a mighty humane warrior. God has been looking after your unselfish and unwavering heart and soul all these decades later as you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
July 24, 2025
Grace and divinity, sanctity and humility they all come from the heart and soul and in particular your very sweet, special and precious soul, Officer Cook, as you served and protected Dade County with cherished esteem and loyalty to be solemnly saluted and remembered for a blessing from above. Dignity, integrity and honesty that followed after evil and patrolled the very venues with vision, versatility and the truthfully trustworthy virtue and commitment. A man of God, devoted, dedicated and determined to fulfill your oath as you did, your sacrifice shall never be forgotten as mankind is reminded of a very gallant man of character, charm and unselfish commitment and values. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Always a loving angel as your family carries forward with your heroic legacy. Respect, diligence and resourceful vigilant effort.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
July 24, 2025
Uplifting, enhancing, enriching and totally outstanding you were above and beyond what these words define as a Dade County hero, Officer Cook. Not only supreme and superb, but loyal, succinct and cherished forevermore by your family, department and many friends who have solemnly remembered and humbly saluted dignity, integrity and blessed honesty from your unwavering and unselfish heart and soul along with charismatic spirit and valued character, commitment and conviction never forgotten. The people have peace, stability and a total sense of pride you took in performing professional labors of your job though perilous at times to make mankind and humility more united and fruitful in its purposes and passions. Certainly a very dedicated, decent and devoted man of God, a gentleman who galvanized the streets you took an oath to protect until your sadly were taken to heaven. Your last ounce of energy, last breath of truth and trustworthiness meant to save us. Just so faithful and a man of values, principles and angelic morals and scruples. May you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
July 23, 2025
The waves of the oceans still come crashing down. Just as violence and evil interrupt the sanity and goodwill of mother nature. Your life and professional acumen, Officer Cook, surely rescued Dade County and its people from much worse a consequence that fateful day of May 16,1979. No matter the scene, situation or circumstance you were there to save us an restore peace, unity and liberty for mankind never to be forgotten. We salute with solemn honor, integrity and dignity your unassuming, unselfish and unwavering character, commitment and conviction all truly trustworthy. Badge#1664 was about loyalty, esteem and staying true to form. Vigilance and diligence along with respect, virtue and humility all blessed your very sacred heart and soul. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
July 22, 2025

