Sheriff talks about friend's suicide and PTSD

Sheriff Whitcomb Talks About Former Sheriff John
5:12 PM, Mar 1, 2012
Written by
Scott Brown
LITTLE VALLEY, N.Y. - For the past two and a half years, Cattaraugus County Sheriff Tim Whitcomb has tried to answer a question that has no real answer: how do you make sense of something that was so senseless?

Former Cattaraugus County Sheriff Dennis John was Tim Whitcomb's mentor, and a lot more.

Sheriff Tim Whitcomb: "Dennis was one of my best friends. He was a role model for me as a young officer, he was my first or second line supervisor from 1996 until his death. In my opinion he was a great dad, he was a youth coach, he was an officer who saw things in black and white. If something was wrong it was wrong and it needed to be set right. He was a great man. There's not a day that goes by that I don't think of him."

But Dennis John was a man with demons inside of him. He committed suicide three summers ago.
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