San Diego Police Officer killed a few weeks after he came home from Afghanistan

Couple called 'true heroes' for calmly aiding gravely wounded cop
A man administered first aid to San Diego Officer Jeremy Henwood, who had a gaping shotgun wound in his head, while his wife took down the gunman's vehicle information and radioed police.

By Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times
August 9, 2011
Reporting from San Diego— The woman's voice was urgent but composed under the circumstances.

"There's an officer shot. There's an officer shot. He's still breathing."

A San Diego police dispatcher asked the caller for more information and then broadcast the imperative that brought dozens of law enforcement personnel racing to a street corner in the mid-city neighborhood on Saturday afternoon.

"1199, 45th and University," said the dispatcher, using the code for "officer down" and giving the address where Officer Jeremy Henwood, a Marine combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, sat slumped in his police vehicle, a gaping shotgun wound in his head.

When Police Chief Bill Lansdowne, his badge covered with black tape, announced Sunday that Henwood had died, he praised the woman who had used Henwood's car radio to alert police to the shooting.

He also lauded her husband, who had desperately tried to administer first aid to stem Henwood's bleeding.

Henwood had only been on the beat for a few weeks, after returning from a deployment in Afghanistan, where, as a captain in the Marine Corps Reserve, he had been commanding a logistics company. The Texas native, who played football in high school and studied criminology at the University of Texas, had also served two combat tours in Iraq.

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Couple called 'true heroes' for calmly aiding gravely wounded cop