Reserve James Boyd Cook

In the late summer of 1990, a young man's nascent career in law enforcement came to a tragic and abrupt end. James Boyd Cook, a 19-year-old male, had been a reserve officer with the Westlake Police Department in Louisiana for a mere two weeks. His aspiration to serve his community was cut short on August 30, 1990, when he succumbed to a gunshot wound he had sustained two days prior. The incident that led to his untimely death was not an act of malice or a confrontation with a criminal, but a dev ...