A story of 2 neighbors turned family started right here on Midwood Street.
I’m your Lansing neighborhood reporter Asya Lawrence here with Lansing police captain Rodney Anderson and the woman who saved his life
“I think it’s been 20 years since I’ve been here,” said Rodney Anderson, Captain at the Lansing Police Department.
When Captain Rodney Anderson began his journey with Lansing Police, he purchased this house on Midwood Street.
“My older peers within the department were doing that so I said okay that makes sense,” Anderson said.
And he made some lifelong friends along the way.
“I can remember Cristalinda coming and going with her friends here” Anderson recalled.
Starting as just neighbors, eventually becoming friends.
“You stayed in touch with my brother and that had an impact on our family so it’s like we might have not KNOWN Rodney but we knew Rodney” Cristalinda Conklin said.
Later becoming family.
“Never did I think that connection would yield life-saving for myself,” Captain Anderson said.