A garage-turned-man cave in Northern Colorado was the perfect setting for a reunion 10 years in the making — an ideal spot for three men to sit together and look back on a night that forever changed their lives.
“When I bought you that car, that look on your face that night,” said Steve Wells to Tanner Brownlee, “that was worth everything to me.”
It was May 13, 2015. A large crowd filled a room at the Weld County Sheriff’s Office for a special auction to buy a retired patrol car. Tanner Brownlee, then 19 years old, had saved up hard-earned cash in hopes of making the highest bid so he could win the white Dodge Charger that his late father, Deputy Sam Brownlee, had used before he was killed in the line of duty in 2010…