Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Police Officer William Coleman Cook

Metro-Dade Police Department, Florida

End of Watch Wednesday, May 16, 1979

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Reflections for Police Officer William Coleman Cook

A true blue guardian angel now for resting in peace my neighbor, friend and hero, Officer Cook. You meant so very much to your beloved family, esteemed and loyal comrades here in Dade County who served and defended our very tranquility as all duly dignified public servants must. Your honesty, trust and character all exactly made your life and career of wisdom and virtue that much more clearer. Never forgotten for having a golden heart and unselfish soul just keep looking down fromheaven as your humble legacy stands tall and proud here.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 28, 2023

The golden steps of eternal rest and heroism have greeted you, Officer Cook and many of your esteemed and valued colleagues who utilized their honor, integrity and dignity the proper way. Dade County's corners, streets and roads were paved by your endearing perseverance and unselfish character that was dedicated, determined and most essential to carry out the rigors of your profession and your pride and heart so blessed and talented exhausted its resources of faithfulness, enhancement and endeavor to make us safer. Always saluted for valor, virtue and vision, your wisdom and humbleness too were gifts from Our Lord that you, your family and comrades better equiped to handle life's missions, journeys and its purposes of passion and proficiency. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 27, 2023

God greets and heroically welcomes all His servants, warriors gallant as gold with hearts and souls overflowing with honesty, reverence and dignified humility. Yours, Officer Cook, was noble and flowed with integrity and composed character and loyal commitment to excel in everything you did on behalf of Dade County's residents. You protected,preserved and served a most vital role in our serenity and safe trails to be forever blessed and treasured. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. One small step is all it takes to make success a reality. Your cherished name and badge spelled out those attentive details even when peril was unleashing its fury.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 27, 2023

When adversity came like a good warrior you went through it, Officer Cook, to defend the residents of Dade County. You surely never shirked nor ran from evil you went to the very source shielding mankind from its awful rages while sacrificing your own heart and soul for us to live on to embellish and to endeavor as you so faithfully did for six years, twenty-five years spent on this earth giving hope and honor to the less unfortunate people that in of itself says what a man you were. A person of class, determination, decency and pure desire were on the streets doing their utmost for us to function. Your family continues your legacy where dignity, commitment and integrity were blessed by Our Master and where humility, heart and pride were always serving with loyalty and esteem. The gratefulness of humanity which saw you demonstrate the highest of morals, ethics and principles for a reason. Why you were taken so suddenly only God knows and for what that man who took your life no one could have gotten into his brain to stop him for such a monsterous act of heinousness. But for sure badge#1664 and its wearer will be remembered and honored for being a true and devout hero. Generations will read and be told who you were and what you humbly represented. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. An angel so beloved, blessed and forevermore adored by his family, comrades and close friends.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 26, 2023

With blessings of boldness and bravery your heart and soul, Officer Cook, were filled with honesty and humbly humane heroism thst shall be saluted and solemnly remembered for aiding, preserving and protecting the sacred people of Dade County your community, your home and venue with your virtue and vision went far and wide along with dignity, character and commitments of truth, trust and integrity. Your family and fellow officers have not forgotten a man of genius and graciousness. Always polite, courteous and well mannered your life and professional career ended just so tragically because of Mr.Pearsall such a cowardly and disgraceful individual. You were consummate and certainly unselfish in all your sacred missions of goodwill, hope and faithfulness apllied at every corner and road where resolve and consistency was required for harmony and liberty to abound without incident. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Soon I am going to make the trek up I-95 to Ormand Beach to see your fellow officer and good friend Officer Keith DiGenova.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 26, 2023

Violence, evil and wanton wickedness should look each other in the mirror and maybe begin the picture of their senseless work. We require the most of essential tranquility and safety for our lives to march forward. Your beloved family members carry on with your complete heroic legacy stamped within their hearts and minds. "Uncle Bo" is never far from them as you were such a cherished gentleman, a servant of God, Officer Cook, you never let the good people of Dade County down. Your beautiful smile and handsome face is been missed so much all these decades later.Its dignity and radiance warmed the recepticles of your resiliency and integrity only the most treasured of character, decency and commitment to excel. Proud yet humble, your unwavering heart and soul propelled you through twenty-five short years of life as you my neighbor, friend and hero had so much more to live for. Your aspirations, principles and passions are carried on in the bloodlines of your family who forever will adore you. Rest in peace. An angel who hovers above watching over his flock and family. The truth and trustworthiness spoke volumes of your quality of life and its unrelenting character. A man of charisma andcharm, faith, hope and goodwill steered your rudders of intensity.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 26, 2023

How do your honor bravery, heroic dignity,character and integrity. By never forgetting the ultimate sacrifice you made, Officer Cook, on behalf of Dade County and its citizens. One day, one hour, one moment you put forth the endeavor and ingenuity to its highest of usages. You created peace and security by being astute and aware of your surroundings. Your beloved community has forever paid homage to your legacy and its humane and loyal due diligence. A man of class, desire, dedication and virtue carrying branches of boldness where they would serve the most. Always so well respected, well liked and completely unselfish in every assignment placed in your paths of both truth and trust. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 26, 2023

A heart of heroic humility and a soul with a dignifed sense of directional integrity. Your whole life and career, Officer Cook, were founded upon morals,character and commitment to serve the people of Dade County with resiliency, endeavor and unselfish respect and loyalty. You will always be saluted and solemnly remembered for honesty and for never forsaking your oath to lead others through danger and adversity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 24, 2023

You were a very humble, honest and heroic young man whose virtue and versatility made you more valuable than most public servants, Officer Cook. And your career and life both living and protecting Dade County was bridged and bordered by everything true and trustworthy in the words of dignity, character and integrity. So succinct, crystal clear and just humanely cherished. A gentleman loyal to his department and to your beloved family you left behind to carry on with your golden legacy. Their lives revolve around your gifted and especially sweet heart and soul that fought until the the very end. We salute with respect and admiration your unwavering and unselfish class, decency, desire and fortitude that was your undivided dedication to every single detail that was essential in fulfilling your perilous onuses to mankind. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 23, 2023

A stellar public servant who embraced mankind with his heroically humble soul, heart and honesty. Officer Cook, you will forever be remembered for class, decency and the dignity that all who protect must have. Integrity, character and commitment to be saluted and revered forever. Your family continues their lives of purpose and passion never forgetting the glue that kept them together after your dad, Charles passed. My you and your mother along with your dad rest in peace my good neighbors, friends and hero. Dade County's folks will constantly cherish you and the loyalty and devotion placed forward for peace and liberty for all to travel down the trails and paths of perseverance and effort.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 22, 2023

Diversity is dignity, integrity valor and virtue, resilient, secure, intelligent, tenacious and yearning and everything spelled in the word honor you had, Officer Cook, so heroically gifted and humble. Our Creator blessed your parents with you and Nancy and neither of you disappointed them ever. Dade County was terribly upset as was your department and entire police nation when on that hot afternoon of May 16, 1979 when just before your shift would conclude so did your valiant young life and career beacuse of this one evil man. You were well revered and diligent beyond any shadow of doubt. Your fellow officers that day would affirm this and you were unselfish and unrelenting in your tasks to create freedom and justice for every resident in your beloved community where your loyalty and esteemed character remain forevermore cherished and respected for all their ideals, values and scruples. Badge#1664 and your soul, Officer Cook, left an inspiring legacy to be saluted and shared for generations yet to come. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Truth and trust that are your angelic partners soaring high above.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 21, 2023

Because you performed your professional tasks of peril so heroically well, honorably and most decent, Officer Cook, Our Creator has saved a very special place for you now and forevermore in His abode in heaven. You fought long and hard for stability and tranquility to blanket our very region. Dade County where you grew up and lived with heart, soul and humility will never forget what you meant to your family and colleagues and for what you represented in dignity, integrity and unwavering and unselfish character and always so loyal and trustworthy commitment to excel and to achieve a means to a purposeful future of which you should have been allowed to live in retirement and enjoy. Sadly, tragically and with heinous actions a young man lacking any respect, decency and integrity ended a wonderful life so upbeat, chipper and an endearing gentleman in yourself, dedicated, charming and wise beyond your years of humbly blessed talents and experience. We salute your fortitude and for persevering and giving due diligence and always keen vigilance the opportunities to thwart violence. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Never out of sight and always in my family's hearts and minds. Keep watching along with your beloved parents may they too rest in peace over your extended family members.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 20, 2023

A person's directions in life are steered by Our Maker. Your desire to succeed, Officer Cook, was blessed and fortified by being dignified and by maintaining your upstanding and outstanding character, honesty and truthfully trustworthy integrity. Dade County was delivered superior service by a supremely gifted and congenial young man who was taken away from his family, comrades and many close friends too soon. With much left behind for your family to travel forward with your inspirational heroic legacy accentuating their every path and trail. You'll be forever saluted for stoic virtue, stellar ethics and all the wisdom so sacredly placed down within the confines of your beloved community. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Humility and a humble heart never wavered and were at all times unselfish and quite dedicated to all dangerous responsibility that all who don a uniform and badge must share. The burdens are great, those devoted and determined will accomplish their goals and aspirations.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 19, 2023

Drove again by your sign today, Officer Cook, the letters are small but your brave heart and soul were gigantic and gallant. Your service and career was constructed through the minerals of morals, mettle and most profound and meaningful character, commitment and conviction all dignified and all consummately trustworthy and loyal. Sincerity, integrity and dignity to be forever treasured by those who carry the beacons and lights of your legacy forward now during their pursuits and aspirations. A uniform and badge worn simply and detail to attention fully operational at all moments. You are to be paid homage and saluted for sacred missions of wisdom, virtue and vision put forth in order for humanity to prosper justly. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 18, 2023

You accomplished and achieved more in your life and esteemed and professional career, Officer Cook, more than we could ponder and comprehend. Dade County, your humble family and colleagues were all so very proud of their hero. Honesty, integrity and dignity so heroically humane and cherished. Cannot forget you and the composure for which you lived and fought for our very harmony as you patrolled and protected us with character, humility, heart and the class of desire, decency and dedication, a truthful and a most trusted warrior to be saluted for gallantry and virtue. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 18, 2023

The citizens of Dade County owe you, Officer Cook, a huge debt of thanks for your service and honorable professionalism spread far and wide. For a man of dignity, integrity and character blessed with humane and humble talents will always be saluted and never overlooked for feats of ferocity, truth and trust. Your paths and trails of intuition and ingenuity were sincerely inspiring and consummate as was your reputation. Stellar and stoic were your sacred earthly journeys and forevermore an angel protecting us from above where your walk your perfect beat. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 17, 2023

Violence, evil and wanton wickedness is so heinous, callous and dangerous to our society we cannot afford to wait or waste a single moment deposing of such an unsightly enemy. You took care of our peace, Officer Cook, heroically branching out your integrity, dignity and wholesome character and humane honesty. Serenity, security and safety all have and contain essentuial roles within humanity which cherishes its heroes and heroines. Dade County was your beloved community where you remain honored and saluted for versatility, sacred missions put forth and for having vision, virtue and wisdom beyond your twenty-five years. Your family continues to miss your smiling face as does Karen and they carry your solemn legacy forward in their everyday lives. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Aspirations and inspirations all truthful and trusted as you patrolled and protected us beyond the responsibilities of duty and devotion.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 16, 2023

Every capsule of character, courage, commitment and conviction, Officer Cook, was validated, corroberated and substantiated within your heroic legacy and most esteemed and cherished name. For if not for your bravery and sacred actions that afternoon of May 16,1979 no telling what further trouble and terror would have ensued in Dade County where you protected every nook and cranny, each and every street, corner and roads where security, safety and serenity were consummate and transparent. Never a day without thinking about you and wondering what you and Karen would being doing right now as you should have been living in a healthy, humble and tranquil retirement. You are to be remembered and solemnly saluted for valor, virtue and wisdom beyond the scope of your years just cutdown by another man's evil and violence. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 15, 2023

What a brave gentleman, humble, heroic and honorable in a life and career performed and lived by character, commitment and the truest of convictions. Dade County was certainly well protected by you, Officer Cook and your fellow officers. They have not forgotten their friend and comrade whose loyalty and esteem stays within their hearts and minds. Your family continues building your heroic legacy signed and sealed by excellence and morals all cherished and revered. You made the ultimate sacrifice, Officer Cook, to steer peace, tranquility and harmony further along the roads of resolve and resourcefulness just as the class of your wisdom and virtue all sacred during your missions of goodwill and yearning. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 14, 2023

Your duties were heroic, your missions with mindful, meaningful and morally scrupulous intuition. It is with these missions and sacred journeys that all who serve and protect their esteemed communities do so with caution not fear nor trepidation. You were consummate and unrelenting, Officer Cook, in fulfilling your sacred vow of virtue, value and valor. The ultimate price of a valued warrior who honored humanity with a cheerful face and resepectful dignity, character and the humbleness of his blessings bestowed upon you by Our Lord, Officer Cook. He took a wonderful and most reliable professional servant back to His home to walk a perfect beat never to be harmed by evil anymore. But, a life and career forever celebrated and remembered for its celestial commitment to pride and ideals. Versatility and sanctity always paid homage and saluted for everything valid in true trust and fierce loyalty. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 13, 2023

Badge#1664 was the absolute epitome of heroism combines with honor, dignity and integrity's always present reverence. A gentleman to be revered and saluted for his sage wisdom, humane virtue and all the proper edicts of effort and commitment poured into your true and graceful character, Officer Cook, that made Dade County and its citizens upright forevermore. Talent alone cannot always bring about miracles, it could inact changes and we the people have some welcome semblance of harmony and peace because of your missions of goodwill and faithfulness put forward always to be paid homage and never to be forgotten. Comrades today carry on with your watch as you look down from the heavens above an angel who rests in peace. My neighbor, friend and hero of concern, a serene heart and kindness that stretched far and wide throughout your beloved neighborhood.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 13, 2023

The waters that welcome our very souls are the reasons why peace, safety and security must reign on this earth. You, Officer Cook, lived by scruples, values and morals taught and learned so humbly, heroically and honorably in your loving home raised by two wonderfully devout and honest partents may they along with you my neighbor, friend and hero rest in peace. The journeys of life are at times a mystery to mankind and yet God put each of us here for a special purpose, a solemn reason to achieve and to make the world a better springboard to nurture our very souls and hearts of warmth, kindness, love and understanding. Dade County was fortified by you a gentleman genuinely concerned with its welfare and by your due diligence,integrity and characters of dignity so you succeeded even though you left this world all too soon because of one man's violence, evil and total lack of respect for authority. A hero whose legacy grows and is to be shared and cherished for generations to come. Rest in peace once again and soar high as a humble servant of Our Creator.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 13, 2023

What you, Officer Cook, heroically handled with grace, dignity and humble honor, God has blessed your revered soul and spirit forevermore. This is what Dade County received back in kind for a young man built with fortitude, strength and might from your unselfish, unwavering and relentless heart of gold, a constitution of commitment and the character that all officers must live by every second that don a uniform of conduct, professionalism and the principles vital to any mission's success. Failure is never acceptible and you accomplished more in your twenty-five years than most do in a lifetime. You were a man of loyalty, esteem and the trails and paths of both truth and trustworthiness constucted by being efficient and resilient. The resourcefulness of devotion, conviction and the multitudes of living a life of virtue, valor and sacred wisdom. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 13, 2023

A man who created the bridges of honor, dignity and integrity here in Dade County through his professional approaches to problems that needed immediate solving. The resolutions are not always so simple but you, Officer Cook, heroically handed all your assignments with humble wisdom, great alacrity and the challenges that confront each and every public servant who risks their life to bring a sense of serenity and relief to a community where you remain most beloved, esteeemed and treasured. Gentlemen of character and decency whose desire and dedication were morally correct should never go without any note and you'll be saluted for bravery, virtue and the boldness of your sacred missions of hope, faith and versatility. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 13, 2023

The pyramids of perseverance, proficiency and persistence were fueled by the foundations of integrity, honesty and dignity forevermore, Officer Cook. You'll always be loved and greatly missed by your family, adored and cherished by those men and women who toiled and protected Dade County, streets, corners and roads besides you. A man humbly blessed and graced with common sense, virtue and the directions of decency, desire and dedication all going the same way. Character, commitment and convictions all done ina first class manner, all true and trustworthy. Your legacy and esteemed heroic name willbe fondly and solemnly saluted forever. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 12, 2023

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