Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Words at a time of terrible woe may seem lost in their translation. But, it's simple to see why you were so respected and admired, Officer Cook. A happy and gallant young man on a course of conviction and the integrity necessary to support good wisdom, dignity and the honesty that all men and women who protect must have attached to their uniforms. Your intellect and ingenuity are the reasons why Dade County and its folks have universal peace and the quality that freedom brings to mankind. The will of society must be cherished and honored as we pursue our happiness and prosperity. No better values and character than yours, Officer Cook, a man of your bond and the compliance to match. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Cornerstones stay embedded in the earth and those foundations placed by your fruitful hands will never be obstructed by terror again. A hero forever and a gentleman of humbleness to be saluted for honesty and ideals.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 12, 2018

The king of kindness and the thoughtful and persevering police officer who rescued his comrades and civilians from the strikes of a troubled young man. Just ruthless and callous what happened to you, Officer Cook. With a mountain of outstanding morals and a badge of boldness, you used your honor, integrity, wisdom and dignity in the proper manner of speaking. You had no idea nor did your colleagues that day that Mr. Pearsall was plotting this caper for a while. So very tragic you gave peace and safety back to Dade County as well as you could. When character and humility work like a charm than no telling the end results and your Godly missions, Officer Cook, have now been taken back to Our Lord's kingdom where you can patrol those golden pavements without harm or worry. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 12, 2018

If you place ferocity and tenacity in a thimble it might not seem like a lot, but in the hearts and souls of our brave, loyal, honorable and courageous there is more sheer will power than ever before. And your goodwill and faithful service to all citizens of Dade County, Officer Cook, may never be overlooked nor forgotten. You were the shield of character, commitment to pride and the savior of serenity keeping evil as far away from us as possible through your heroism and humble humility. It's what sets valiant warriors apart in their enhancements of our world. Those foundations you laid out, Officer Cook, for other brave women and men to follow in. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. The quintessential public servant of harmony and unity right from your humane being.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 12, 2018

Instant success is never guaranteed. Only the finest and fondest of effort and bravery is what most capable public servants can offer in this increasingly large scale war over violence. Terror strikes a chord in one's tenacity leaving people wondering where their peace will come from. You served Dade County with all your might and mettle, Officer Cook. A humble and loyal man of honor, character, dignity and integrity whose life protected others. Now decades after you heroically made the supreme sacrifice, let it be known to the entire world that humility and vision count as much as faith and desire. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 12, 2018

Better to be an action person than a spectator to this sad array of senseless violence that at times has blanketed our communities and dampened our spirits. No one can fault you, Officer Cook, even though you were not dispatched to that domestic scene of May 16, 1979. You utilized every bit of commitment imaginable and intensely burning desire and dignity to put out the flames of one man ferocious zeal for evil. Evil that can come back and bite someone in the wrong place. Make no mistake he was misguided and caused a ruckus worse than one can imagine. You were outstanding in your duties, Officer Cook, shielding Dade County residents of more harm while aiding your fellow officers and giving us the chance at serenity and peaceful travels. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 11, 2018

Pray for swift justice and pay attention to the cornerstones of those brave enough to fight for our civilization. Liberties and freedoms, peace, prosperity and unity come with a humble price to bear. Never does anyone want to lose a beloved family member and so it is that we cherish our times with them for no one knows when Our Creator's day of reckoning will arrive. The grass withers, the flower fades surely the good name and your most blessed honesty, Officer Cook, resides in your family's heart, your colleagues' minds and in God's house of hope, faith and the goodwill of mankind forever. Dade County's truth and trust in your humility released a wonderful chain of courage and serenity for us all to be extremely thankful for. Missions and fruitful journeys come with a destiny, retirement should have been your profound calling after nearly thirty years of loyal and dedicated service to your community. Instead the saddest of tidings, a man full of tenacity humbly speaking not timidness was unduly taken from this world by violence and the ruins of rage all perpetrated by a distraught young man. Why? We don't have conclusive or concrete answers. All your family members know as they try to cope with grief over your loss is that you would want for them to carry on with your heroic legacy of character, dignity and noble deeds to be remembered for generations to come. It is underlines and underscores in the happiness the Cook, Tidwell and Wilkerson Families all pursue in their daily lives of peace, health, happiness and contentment. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 11, 2018

Irreplaceable and immeasurable, what these two words define are a public servant's bravery, boldness and courage under the fires of danger. It is the very living and breathing examples of proper conduct, professional dignity and integrity, humane and heroic honesty when confronted by an enemy so large and massive, all you can do is try your darndest to secure peace and resolve for the goodwill of our community. You did that, Officer Cook and with the finishing touches of refined character, were you available and ready to pursue peace for all Dade County. You made men and women strong and courageous by your unwavering and unassuming leadership roles. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. You are missed very much, Officer Cook as God has your destinies sealed for eternity to reward your persistence in rerouting rage and making sense of what it means to be unified in harmony once again.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 11, 2018

Public servants are not just pretty faces in the crowd. Their multitude of talents must fully locked and assembled when they go out and face real danger. It's God's way of calling them to attention and only good character, bravery and morals can help to usurp the strangle hold that evil has on us. Dade County back in your time, Officer Cook, was well cared for, as its vitality and quiet were brought about through your fondness and sincerest of effort. The wise conceal their character never letting it get too big or out of line when peril and wickedness seek to destroy it. A hero such as yourself, Officer Cook, was prepared and though it was terrible that you lost your life, the memories of your destinies and navigations continue to fly higher each day. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 11, 2018

You were a real juggernaut in justice for all, Officer Cook and to back up all your professional missions with exactly the right dignity, integrity and honor you had in serving the good folks of Dade County. Right down to the very last ounce of might. Your courage and character have become the enhancements we have all looked forward to. No doubt a solid commitment to maintain proper morals and the humility to adjust as needed. A fine servant who worked to procure peace and unity not as a formality but as an everlasting framework in a community that still respects and treasures your loyalty. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 11, 2018

A piece of every brave soul's persona goes to that big fraternity in the sky, literally the eternal land of the free and called home to the brave where no more be pain, suffering and anymore harm can be cast upon their beings of boldness and humility. Your charming and classical demeanor, Officer Cook, stood tall and proud as you protected and served the citizens of Dade County during some very trying times. The moments are fleeting, the memories they all last forever as your honor, integrity and visual wisdom is etched in our mind and hearts. It's the tranquility and unity that has called for humanity's goodwill, a character of achievement not be be forgotten, only heroically saluted for valor and vigilance. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 11, 2018

The genuinely peaceful journeys you undertook, Officer Cook, represented the new found hopes and dreams of all living in and around the corridors of Dade County. Our safe travels can be directly linked to your perseverance and resolve, boldness and everlasting humane and humble bravery. All pieced together by unrelenting honesty, integrity and the dignity to fight those battles over evil and placing your life, morals and career on the line for our trust in you and security and peace to last a lifetime. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 11, 2018

Air taken in is a necessity. You cannot begin to live without the vitality coming from your two lungs. So true and that's what you did to honor your family peers and friends, Officer Cook. You gave evil a good run for its money and nothing done better or more bolder than humbly presenting us with harmony and liberty to move freely about the different areas of Dade County. Your convincing character and its maturity were set in motion when you were still a relatively young man, Officer Cook. A mettle of meaningful work and the outstanding backbones of bravery and fairness for all mankind. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 10, 2018

What a sad state of affairs and how guns laws are so lax in this country. Supposed to be the freest and most trusted, sure doesn't sound plausible how our brave and dignified can execute their duties knowing persons not normal and who have problems can get a permit to carry "heat". First of all to pack a weapon you must be free of legal issues and just act like a relatively sane individual. You were a very brave soul of sanity protecting Dade County, Officer Cook. With your inner spirit and physical being you took your commands and marched to your departments ideals, wisdom and very values that were supposed to make you safe and pull you through and us as well through torment. The warrior in you, Officer Cook, was whistling for a little action, what a hero! It got our attention, should have gained Mr. Pearsall's as well. Nevertheless you'll be honored and poignantly saluted for gallantry above and beyond the calls of duty. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 10, 2018

Worries decrease the prospects of peace because of where your true vision should lie. If all police did was worry the jobs of dealing and preventing violence would not be carried out smartly and fairly. You stuck to your guns, Officer Cook and provided Dade County residents was alert and clear integrity, honesty and the dignity to dig in in this battle over wickedness. The characteristics of good women and men are their abilities to humanely think on their feet and to have a little humility encased in their heroic hearts. Your department got every bit of boldness and commitment from their faithful and outstanding comrade of consideration and concern for our welfare. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 10, 2018

The avalanche of adversity sets the chains of terror in motion and then things , well you don't know how they will go. The tension and turmoil back in your day, Officer Cook, for those of us living and looking for a little unity and peace, you could cut the unrest with a knife. At least, Officer Cook, you got to the nuts and bolts of the matters at hand. Determination. Leadership. Honesty, bravery and the dignity to stand up to the root causes of evil which ended your sweet and wonderfully engaging life with your beloved Karen. So hard to imagine you not being there for your mother, Mrs. Julia Cook now. I do hope and pray that at the humble age of one-hundred and two you are well. You and your husband, Charles, may he too rest in peace raised two fine and humble children. Nancy and her beloved younger brother, "Billy." His class and character helped him to overcome the drastic affects of heinousness and really a terrible story losing him and his integrity and morals at the tender age of twenty-five. Peace and hope were planted in Dade County forever by your unselfish contribution and sacrifice to be roundly saluted for its class and valor. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 10, 2018

The travels and travails of a gallant young man serving his community with esteem, respect and loyal admiration. All we just want to know your family even after all these decades later, Officer Cook, was why in the good Lord's name of honesty, piousness and reverence were you needed back with your immortal soul of serenity in heaven? It's a big space in the stratosphere where your spirit and soul of character, dignity and intuition may sail higher each day. You are a hero whose service and peacemaking skills, Officer Cook, made an indelible imprint upon Dade County citizens never to be overlooked and sacredly saluted for vision ,valor and humility. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 10, 2018

In Old Glory rests our reasons for living. You had those very same reasons, Officer Cook and wickedness should not been allowed to take you from your family, peers and personal friends. Your classic commitments, concern and courage all validated your honor, dignity and integrity that helped you stand face to face with this young man bent on evil. So sad. Truly an angelic hero in God's celestial skies. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. With humility and wisdom like yours, Officer Cook,no telling how far up that professional ladder of leadership you would have climbed.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 10, 2018

Those eternal vaults of valor and vigilance are always open in God's tents of tenacity and good graces. It was your humble and heroic actions which saved more lives and allowed Dade County's own to prosper in wisdom and in harmony. Your character and convictions, Officer Cook, were the tonic of esteem and bravery you brought everyday to your official assignments. Only saluted and and cherished for being kind and faithful, respectful and articulate in the matters that needed policing. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 10, 2018

Bravery behooves dignity and honesty to come closer. They all did while you patrolled Dade County, Officer Cook. And so too did integrity and the cores of courage, wisdom and vision, all made possible by your common sense approaches to solving and resolving conflict. If only none of this had ever turned ugly you would still be alive and well with Karen. When a man of high caliber concern, care and compassion reaches out to reign in terror and pays the worst price leaving your family to mourn your tragic loss, Officer Cook, what are we to think and your comrades who fought and labored as you so fiercely did. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 10, 2018

Violence is the disturbance that upsets our freedom of movement and peaceful pursuits of happy times. In Dade County there you were, Officer Cook, a smiling demeanor and a devoted public servant with the utmost respect and admiration for your position. Your duties and tasks all broadened by virtue of your outstanding commitment to both pride and excellence, honor humbly created within you and dignity and integrity that rose to the top during your six years of loyal and dedicated service to those whom you protected and tried to bring along the serenity and safekeeping we are all entitled to. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Character and class, all from a truly gallant and noble gentleman with the spirit to match.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 10, 2018

For some cracking that professional code of ethical conduct is difficult. For the majority of men and women they understand and get it. Their actions of honor and acumen speak volumes of their volition. It all validates their integrity and dignity when serving that noble cause. As you navigated and patrolled for peace and welfare in and around Dade County, Officer Cook, so may it be His will that we pay honor and humility to your blessed name and sacred soul of supreme sacrifice. You paid the ultimate price for our peace of mind and taciturn moments of joy, happiness and pleasure. The very same you should now be experiencing with your beloved family members, Officer Cook. All who still adore and love you, "Uncle Bo." Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero of truly humble character and concern for his fellow man.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 9, 2018

If we acquiesce to this hailstorm of heinousness where than are we headed? Right straight to the abyss. The epicenter of our energetic and efficient heroes and heroines is right on their sleeves where serenity and dignity is born from honesty and basic humane integrity. Any cornerstone achieved is better left unturned for one never knows what might be found buried underneath. You planted the seeds of security and safe travels for all Dade County people, Officer Cook, A constant reminder of this is to take a drive on NW 17th Avenue and stop at the light on NW 75th Street and notice the heroic and angelic sign of a humane and truly faithful and devoted savior, "Officer William C. Cook Street". Gallantry, passion and vision pop right out of that forever sacred peace of green metal. symbolic of your unwavering constitution in battling adversity and replenishing our streams and other bodies of water with intuition and your undivided consensus of wisdom. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Life is not promised nor given, neither was your life and your solid career a dream, Officer Cook. You cannot daydreams through life when peril and danger are set loose like a Tasmanian Devil.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 9, 2018

The calls from the grave echo the magnitude of the situations we face when violence hinders our pathways of happiness. It did on May 16, 1979 and lo and behold, there you were, Officer Cook, ready to act heroically and civilly. An evil man bent on terror dueling with men all stout and replete with dignity, ethics and honor. You sure were, Officer Cook, present and accounted for in resolve, hope and faith that things would end properly. Too bad Mr. Pearsall did not reach that same conclusion and just surrender peacefully none of this mayhem would have ever happened to such a fine young man and brave soul of serenity. Dade County and its population were in terrifically great hands a humanitarian and humble warrior. Touche to a savior! Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Your colleagues have respected and looked back on your gallant efforts and paths in life that should not have been ended at the tender young age of twenty-five.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 9, 2018

Scoundrels swoop in and steal lives of special and brave men and women who wage war against wickedness. Their deceitful and heinous actions leave a scar on society too large to heal and to replace. How do you really replace a truly beloved hero and humble man such as yourself, Officer Cook? Serving Dade County with every last ounce of might and ingenuity the wraparounds of integrity, honor and the representation of dignity and outstanding character leave on the uniforms of your brave soul. You obviously had more left to accomplish and by your unending tasks and unselfish actions of humanity did you solemnly display gallantry and civility to bring peace, unity and tranquility to a community that continues paying homage to you, Officer Cook, cherished, but always stoically remembered. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Rage needs to be caged. Perseverance must be set free to roam above our fruited plains.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 9, 2018

Effort, energy and efficiency at times can leave one exasperated. No rational is always present and all any public servant worth their salt and stripes can do is give total endeavor, be open and honest, poised and maintain good character as you always did, Officer Cook. Sometimes hopes, dreams and our aspirations are like that proverbial roller coaster, high and low peaks and valleys. Though, never any shadow of hesitation or doubt that you packaged peace, unity and safety as one by-product of your unwavering heroism integrity and humility. Your valiant actions, Officer Cook, demonstrated class and concern, care and sanctity never to be forgotten. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. You work as a team for your community and department, your treasured loyalty, Officer Cook, will be saluted and etched in our thoughts, prayers and hearts for eternity.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 9, 2018