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He saw himself as a vigilante. A saviour. A super hero.
For nearly 50 days, James Tullier has barely left the Baton Rouge hospital where he's held vigil for his son, a sheriff's deputy wounded in an ambush that killed three other officers not even when his family was hit by a second tragedy, their homes wrecked in historic flooding.
Tullier doesn't have time to mourn the damage to his house, or the neighboring homes of his other two sons. Doctors initially feared that Nick Tullier had less than 24 hours to live after the shooting.
"The house could have washed away. It's just not a priority to us. Nick is our priority," James Tullier said during an interview at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, where James, his wife, Mary, and Nick's fiancee take shifts at his bedside.
The wife of a fallen Baton Rouge police officer learned she was carrying his child just two weeks after he was killed in an ambush attack.
Dechia Gerald told WAFB that her baby will be a “wonderful and constant reminder” of her late husband, Officer Matthew Gerald. She's sad that he will never get to meet his child, but believes the baby is a gift that he left behind.