Police officer, father of seven, killed in Boulder shooting: Honoring a "good and faithful servant" today
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 23 March 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Officer Eric Talley was one of ten people killed in a shooting yesterday afternoon in Boulder, Colorado. This Daily Article Special Edition podcast pays tribute to his life and faith, then we explore ways we can emulate his sacrifice with our courage today.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for culture-changing Christians. |
| 0:07.7 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.6 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:18.4 | Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Dennis and Forum and this is the Daily |
| 0:21.2 | Article Special Edition for Tuesday morning March 23rd, 2021. The title is, |
| 0:26.8 | police officer, father of seven, killed in Boulder shooting honoring a good and faithful |
| 0:32.4 | servant today. Officer Eric Talley was one of 10 people killed yesterday afternoon when a shooter attacked a |
| 0:40.3 | grocery store in Boulder, Colorado. Officer Talley joined the Boulder Police Department a decade ago. |
| 0:46.5 | He had seven children, the youngest, was seven years old. According to his father, quote, |
| 0:51.9 | he loved his kids and family more than anything. |
| 0:55.0 | He was looking for a job to keep himself off the front lines and was learning to be a drone operator. |
| 1:00.2 | He didn't want to put his family through something like this, and he believed in Jesus Christ. |
| 1:06.1 | Nonetheless, Boulder Police Chief Maris Harold told reporters that Officer Talley, quote, was the first on the scene, and he was fatally shot. |
| 1:14.8 | Holding back tears, she added, my heart goes out to the victims of this incident, and I'm grateful to the police officers that responded, and I'm so sorry about the loss of Officer Talley. |
| 1:26.1 | His father said, didn't surprise me. He was the first one there. |
| 1:30.2 | Chief Harold called Talley's actions, nothing short of heroic. A friend described him. |
| 1:35.5 | He was a devout Christian. He had to buy a 15-passenger van to haul his kids around, and he was the |
| 1:40.8 | nicest guy in the world. CNN reports that the Colorado tragedy is the seventh mass shooting in the U.S. in the past seven days. |
| 1:51.1 | According to Wikipedia, there have been 107 mass shootings in the U.S. so far this year, |
| 1:56.9 | killing 122 people and wounding 325 others. |
| 2:00.7 | There have been only five days this month without such a tragedy. killing 122 people and wounding 325 others. |
| 2:04.5 | There have been only five days this month without such a tragedy. |
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