Officer reunites with victim of Christmas parade crash

WAUKESHA, Wis. (TMJ4) — It was a reunion that Officer Gary Wallace from the Franklin Police Department was not expecting.

Officer Wallace was attending the Waukesha Christmas parade with his household arsenic his girl marched with the Girl Scouts done Main Street.

The infinitesimal helium noticed chaos unleashing arsenic the speeding SUV came charging done the streets, helium went into archetypal responder mode and began helping anyone helium saw that was down.

He noticed a pistillate lying connected the crushed with a young lad holding her. He instantly went to assistance and got her into a random bull car.

On Friday, a communicative with Marisol Lopez and her lad Adair Rebollar-Lopez aired connected TMJ4. A subordinate from Officer Wallace's squad was convinced that Lopez was the pistillate Wallace helped.

That led to Wallace being reunited with Lopez.

"I'm ne'er gonna hide what I saw, but erstwhile I got the nexus to the nonfiction to the interrogation with Marisol, it took a batch of ache retired of my heart, due to the fact that I knew astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic that I tried to assistance was gonna marque it," said Officer Wallace.

He says helium helped galore that night, but to this time helium has nary thought whether oregon not they are okay.

The hardest portion for Officer Wallace was seeing her son, Adair, holding her crying.

"That was the hardest happening I've ever had to bash was to propulsion her lad disconnected of her truthful we could get her retired of there. That was conscionable heart-wrenching. To spot them backmost unneurotic again...it did a batch to assistance maine determination on," helium said.

Lopez's household was brought to tears thanking Officer Wallace for his assistance that evening.

Lopez asked Officer Wallace who could person committed this senseless enactment of unit portion they were connected the mode to the hospital.

"You asked wherefore and past you told maine 3 times that you would commune for him and that you wanted him to cognize that you prayed for him. You animate me. I've got a batch of enactment to bash to beryllium the benignant of idiosyncratic that I request to beryllium for my kids and I'm conscionable gonna effort to drawback up to you," said Officer Wallace.

Lopez believes moving guardant begins with forgiveness and grace contempt her injuries.

"My assemblage is wounded oregon painful, but my tone is beardown and that's the astir important," said Lopez.

Both Lopez and Officer Wallace program to look for each different if determination is simply a Christmas parade adjacent year, believing that they volition flooded the trauma together.

This communicative was primitively reported by Jessica Madhukar connected tmj4.com.