Hundreds gathered in the cold and wind at Glasgow Park on Tuesday night for a candlelight vigil honoring fallen Delaware State Trooper Cpl. Grade One Matthew T. “Ty” Snook.
“We are stronger together,” Dennis Desilet, a Fraternal Order of Police chaplain, told the crowd. “As I look out to the hundreds of people here who have endured all this cold, I see strength. I see community. Law enforcement and the community are stronger together.”
Snook, a graduate of Saint Mark’s High School and a 10-year veteran of the state police, was shot and killed Dec. 23 while working an overtime assignment at the Division of Motor Vehicles facility near Wilmington. Authorities said Snook was shot from behind and then pushed a DMV worker to safety before being shot again…