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Fallen Austin Officer Jaime Padron Remembered In San Angelo

Updated: Wednesday, April 11 2012, 10:01 AM CDT
As Austin gets ready to bid a final farewell to Officer Jaime Padron, the city of San Angelo prepares to welcome him home one last time.

Austin is doing the actual escort bringing Jaime home, “he was their officer, they need to do that for him, but he was our brother too and we'll be close by,” explains San Angelo Police Sergeant John Rodriguez.

At the San Angelo police department, many who were close to Padron are coping with his loss by adding their personal memories to a collage, “We thought it might be appropriate for people to be able to put something down on paper, says Rodriguez, who has too many fond memories to put them all to paper.  He met Padron 18 years ago as a recruit.  He watched as Padron met his eventual fiancé, "Watched ‘em get married, watched them have children".  And he watched as Padron warned his little daughters about the dangers of daddy's job, “He did what he could to prepare them…at their age they don't grasp the concept. He did that to help them understand in case there was a loss, they could come to grips a little bit easier.”

This may help too: some time after their father is laid to rest in San Angelo, police there plan to give Padron's six and ten year old daughters that collage they are putting together to let the little girls know how much their father was loved and respected by his extended family, “So they'd know some things about their dad, things that perhaps they weren’t privy to prior to, things we knew about him, and things that we loved about him, and just give them some more memories."Fallen Austin Officer Jaime Padron Remembered In San Angelo