DALLAS — Family and friends of fallen Dallas police officer Darron Burks are getting ready to say their final goodbyes.
Friday night, a visitation was held at Watermark Church in Dallas.
“He was one of the best nephews I’ve ever had,” Betty Newton said. “We all loved him. We all did and just speaking for myself, I can’t think of a better guy.”
Burks was sitting in his squad car, in between calls, when a suspect shot and killed him last Thursday .
“It’s kind of a shock but God knows best that’s all I can say, and he was wonderful,” Newton said. “He really was.”
Friends, like Rodney Fennell, said he meant a lot to a lot of people.
“You couldn’t find anybody that could say anything negative about him,” he said. “He was a positive man. He didn’t say a lot, but he did a lot.”
Before Burks got into law enforcement, he was a math teacher at Texans Can Academy in Dallas from 2006 to 2023.