Bryan Pfluger would have been 38-years-old on Tuesday. But instead of celebrating his birthday friends, family, and fellow officers from the San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office remembered an officer they lost in 2019. On December 21, 2019, Pfluger was responding to a call of a possible burglary in progress just outside Coldspring when he lost control and crashed. Medics were unable to save him. Bryan left behind his mother, father, a small child, and his fiancee along with his fellow officers of the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office. Tommy Capel, of “Saving A Hero’s Place”, has known many fallen officers and began making chairs to serve as a permanent place of reverence. He was met by Bryan’s fellow officers and family Tuesday at the San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office where he and his wife placed a chair in Bryan’s Honor to the Sheriff’s Office. Saving A Hero’s Place, Inc. was formed through tragedy. In 2013, Capel was contacted by another Police Officer to build a chair similar to several chairs that were placed at the San Antonio police substation years back. This chair would be in honor of a San Antonio Police Officer who died in the performance of his duty. The chair was built in March 2013 and placed at a substation where the officer worked. The following month, on April 18, 2013, MIT Police Officer Sean Collier was killed in the line of duty by the Boston bombers. Officer Sean Collier was sitting in his patrol vehicle serving his community. Unable to sleep for weeks, Tommy knew something needed to be done for this officer. He immediately got with my wife Robbie Capell and two fellow officers. He advised them that he wanted to build an Honor Chair for Officer Collier. The MIT Police Department was contacted and welcomed the idea of an Honor Chair. After quickly raising money from the community, friends, and family, The four of them traveled by vehicle over 2,000 miles to deliver the honor chair. Officer Sean Collier’s honor chair was presented on May 28, 2013. The emotions that came with this honor chair, and seeing what the chair meant to the MIT Police department, made all of them realize they were not done. Prior to the chair made for Pfluger, over 150 chairs have been presented to departments around the US.
By MCPR- http://www.mccops.com/
PFLUGER AND HIS MOTHER PENNY GRIFFIN
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