When you think of an anniversary, what comes to mind? A wedding? Time spent at a job? A move to a new place?
“We learned that across the country the various police organizations, various paramilitary organizations, that when an officer dies it’s called their anniversary when you get to that date,” Doug Jerving shared.
But for him and his wife Patty, February 7th feels like anything but an anniversary.
“You think of your wedding anniversary. That’s a good thing. To me, that’s what an anniversary is supposed to be. A celebration. It’s hard to think of this as a celebration. I think of this as a memorial,” he continued.
February 7th is the day their time with their son, Peter, was cut short.
“It didn’t seem real for so long. But, I think I know it’s real now,” Patty said.
Milwaukee Police Officer Peter Jerving was shot and killed on February 7th, 2023 while trying to arrest a robbery suspect. He was 37 and had four years of service.
TMJ4 Patty said it was important to her to know exactly what happened the night her son died. She feels he would have wanted her to know as well. She wrote about reading the investigative report and watching the body camera video in a book she started writing, “Death by Homicide.”