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<\/p>\nIt\u2019s been one year since the shooting death of rookie Dallas police officer Darron Burks. <\/p>\n
On Friday evening, friends came together to honor his life at the location where he was gunned down while sitting in his squad car. Balloons with handwritten notes were released in the parking lot at For Oak Cliff Community Center in an emotional tribute.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe always took time out of his schedule to be there for us, no matter what the situation was,\u201d Greg Allmon, longtime friend and fraternity brother.<\/p>\n
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His friends, classmates, community and members of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated gathered to share prayers and memories about a man who meant so much to so many people.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was intentional about leaving things better than what he found them. That\u2019s how he treated everybody, and that\u2019s how he treated every situation that he was involved in,\u201d Allmon said.<\/p>\n
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Ahead of Friday evening\u2019s event, Officer Burks\u2019 best friend, Andrea Scott, sat down with NBC 5 to talk about how the past year has been since his loss.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mind won\u2019t let me think that he\u2019s not here anymore,\u201d said Scott.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been a year, and Scott said her new normal hasn\u2019t quite set in. Just weeks ago, she experienced her first birthday in years without Burks.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not used to him not calling, not sending me videos. He normally texts me at 12:01 or 12:02. He would send me a video,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s still unbelievable that he\u2019s not here.\u201d<\/p>\n
In an instant, the friend she\u2019d known for decades was gone. Burks was parked at the community center on East Ledbetter Drive on the night of August 29, 2024, when he was shot by a man who approached his squad car.<\/p>\n
The man was later identified as Corey Cobb-Bey. Former Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia said Cobb-Bey approached Burks on foot and talked to him briefly. He said that within a matter of seconds, he pulled out a gun and shot Burks in his car.<\/p>\n
Scott remembers the phone call she received that night.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn my way there, I\u2019m praying, I\u2019m calling people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She bypassed the frenzy outside of the hospital. That\u2019s where she heard the news that Burks had died.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a faint type of moment,\u201d she said. \u201cI wanted to pass out, I just couldn\u2019t believe it. I just never would\u2019ve thought it would happen to him of all people, because he was such a great guy.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the days following Burks\u2019 death, a flood of condolences and an overwhelming show of support began pouring in.<\/p>\n
Burks was a Dallas native, an alumnus of Paul Quinn College, and an educator for several years before making a career transition to law enforcement. He also volunteered with the Boy Scouts of America.<\/p>\n
Scott said she wasn\u2019t at all surprised by the lives he\u2019d touched and the stories people shared.<\/p>\n
\u201cI honestly knew that who they\u2019re describing is the person that he was. He was very loyal. His friends were his family, so he kept them close,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Scott and Burks were as close as two best friends could be. From time spent as students at Paul Quinn, to hours-long conversations, and workout sessions together, she said they never went more than a couple of days without communicating.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe loved fitness, faith, family and friendship. Those were his things, and he made sure he covered all his bases with those things,\u201d she said<\/p>\n
The past year has had its ups and downs, but she remains inspired and encouraged.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s still with me,\u201d she said. \u201cI truly feel it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been one year since the shooting death of rookie Dallas police officer Darron Burks. On Friday evening,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":186243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-186242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-tx","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115115537875084017","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}