“During my 30-year career, I’ve lost friends on the job to suicide, in the line-off-duty deaths, so I know how that feels,” he said. “They don’t have to describe it to me. I know how it feels, as does the rest of the command staff. So I just wanted to come over here and give them some encouragement, tell them to keep their heads up and we’ll do everything. We can get through this together.”