Officer Down Memorial Page

Jason hard to believe that it has been 6 years since we lost you. Big Kev and I were talking about how you use to make us laugh back when you lived over here. Jason you are not forgotten your legacy lives on. We know that you are with us and watching over all of your friends and family. On this day I can remember 6 years ago like it was yesterday. I remember the SOB cars flying down Beech Daly and laying on their horns trying to get to the scene not knowing at the time what was going on. I remember Ash and I calling 911 to report a possible road rage incident and talking with Becky and finding out the shocking news. I remember going home and praying that you would be okay. I remember waking up the next day to worse news ever. I could not believe what I had heard, the though that you were gone was unreal. I remember that day going with Pila and placing a huge blue ribbon at the scene in memory of you. On this day today I remember you old friend and hope that you continue to watch over me everytime I put my uniform on. -KC-

anonymous
May 25, 2012

Jason I am going to miss you. You were a great co worker and a friend. Man you were our "Big Bad John" it was so awesome to have you show up on a run when I was dealing with a--holes because you always helped and made everything seem so funny. I am glad we got to go to lunch Wednesday morning cause thats how I will remember you, telling Jokes and talking trash. I hope god deals with the ass who shot you. To see you with like that is so screwed up. We stayed with you to the end, just like you would have done for any of us. God Bless You Jason we already missing you. Your friend Bruce. 25 May 2006
^ I remember the tears while writing the above reflection
Jason Your Memory Lives On. We miss you Jay.

Cpl B. Krot
Dearborn Heights Michigan
May 24, 2012

Thinking about you lately.....never forgotten. RIP

DHPD
co-worker
May 16, 2012

I was thinking about you last night. I always smile when I think about you. :) You kept me laughing at work and always had something to say to me that put a smile on my face. You pulled me up when I was down. You told me once I should take my chances when I could before they where gone and it was too late. I listened to you! and am happy I did. I prayed for you and C. last night. Your friend

Anonymous
DHPD
April 28, 2012

Hey Jay
It's been five long years and I stil can remember it like yesterday. I will never forget those last wods you said to me. I still keep replaying that day over and over. But I just want to say thank you for giving some of us a second chance on life. You wre the best of the best my friend and I will also be thankful for what you sacific that day for all of us. Wathc over us and rest in peace.


Sgt a
Dbn Hgts PD

Sgt. A
Dbn Hgts Pd
September 19, 2011

Oh Jay......I know you are watching over Cam but I have to say he is growing up so fast and he looks just like you.
My child goes to school with Cameron, hangs out with him and we get the chance to be around him. Its like a little piece of you left behind.
He is such a sweet sensitive boy, I wish he would have had the chance to grow up knowing you.
Rest in Peace Jay.
May you always be watching and may you always be there.

Friend
Ex-coworker
June 13, 2011

My Brother with God; rest in peace. I didn't know you personally. I know those who knew you well. I myself lost two close friends to the job many years ago. Please guide us into safety as you watch over us all. Rest in peace, brother ;)

Detroit Metropolitan LEO's
Police
May 25, 2011

Thinking about Jason today and recalling the horror that happened five years ago. Saying a little prayer for Tara and Liz, neither of whom I've ever met but can imagine their suffering. Five years is a long time and such a short time. Rest easy Jason.

Tina
May 24, 2011

Thinking of you Jay. I still dont know why my glands swelled up that Thrusday just enough to make me cancel traffic but maybe it was Divine Intervention for me or the Devil keeping me from being there for you. On that sad day I felt better just before calling of sick for the shift. On the way into work I listened helplessly to the tragedy occuring on the prep. I fell bad that I was not there to have your back that day. I have only missed my traffic once since then (besides when it was canceled for a few weeks) and for that time I was stuck in court preventing me from coming in. Iam "Superstitious" and try my best to make it in for TE. I dont to let another peer down. I can imagine what you would be saying if you could tell us your version of incident. You were never at a loss for words:) God speed and keep looking out for us.

Cpl Bruce Krot
DHPD
May 24, 2011

5 years ago today was the last time that I saw you. You came to visit me at Starbucks and we ate pizza from D.I.B. and we were talking about what were going to do that night because you would be getting off duty soon. Our dinner was interrupted by a dispatch call and you had to go because thats what you did, you always protected anyone and anything that you could. I told you to be careful and that I loved you and you said the same to me, neither of us knowing that would be the last time that we would say these, or any other words to each other.

Shortly after you left, a customer came into the store and told us that a police officer had been shot. I texted you right away to make sure that you were ok. You didnt reply and I knew right away that it was you that had been shot. I knew not only because you ALWAYS replied right away when I texted you, since you knew how much I always worried about you, but also because our connection to each other was so strong, I could tell that something had happened to you.

I called my mom and told her to turn on the news and I kept trying to contact you so that I could get confirmation of my feelings. When my mom couldnt tell me anything and I still didnt get a reply from you, I knew that I had to go find out for myself. I drove to the scene and you had already been taken away. I wandered around asking everyone if they knew the name of the officer that had been shot, but no one would answer me. Someone finally asked me who I was looking for, and when I said Jason Makowski, the man just started shaking his head and said, Im so sorry.

I immediately fell to the ground and screamed and cried like I never have before. I felt like my heart had been ripped out of my chest and I didnt know what to do. My brother came and picked me up and drove me to the hospital and the whole way to the hospital I just stared at a picture of you and I that I had on my phone saying, Please dont leave me, please dont leave me. I need you.

When I finally got to the hospital I asked immediately if I could see you even though you were in ICU. I walked right up to you and held your hand and begged you again, Please dont leave me, I need you. I dont care if you dont even know who I am when you finally wake up. I will spend the rest of my life taking care of you, please dont leave me, I need you. Your body was so warm as I held you that I felt like you were still with me. I was in complete denial that you were already gone and were only being kept alive by machines.

When the doctors told your mom that you would most likely never gain consciousness again and even if you did, you would never be able to think or speak, she made the decision to let you go and rest in peace. As hard as it was, we all said goodbye as we watched you breathed your last breaths.

The day after your death I remember waking up and saying, I dont want to be awake. I dont want to be awake without Jason. Although I have come a long way in the days that have passed since then, every time the anniversary of your death comes around, I am immediately brought back to that dark, sad place. I try to remind myself that you are resting in peace and that you would never want me, or any of your family and friends to spend a day being sad, but it is so much easier said than done.

What I wouldnt give to touch you again, see you again, hear you again, laugh with you again, even if it was just for one moment. I could have never imagined still feeling the way that I feel today, still missing you as much as I do, even though it has already been 5 years since I last saw you. I only knew you for a few short months before you were taken away, but the impression that you made on my life will last an eternity. Everyday when I look down at my wrist at the tattoo of your initials, I am reminded not of your death, but of your life and the impact that you had on me and so many other people. I love you Jason Anthony Makowski. I loved you 5 years ago, I love you today and I will always love you.

Liz
Girlfriend
May 24, 2011

Tomorrow is the 5th year anniversary of the day that Jason was shot. I know that the technical anniversary is the 25th, but the 24th is always the hardest day for me as that was the last day that I saw him and the day of the incident.

Please say prayers for me and all of this family and friends as I know that I am feeling as much anxiety and sadness today as I did the day that it happened.

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal."

Liz
Girlfriend
May 23, 2011

Jason, None of Liz's family has forgotten you. I met you when the tulips were in bloom as they are now. I pray that this will never happen again to an officer. I visit your memorial for myself and Liz. She will never forget you.

Deb
friend
May 14, 2011

Dearborn Heights PD and sister Tara, my thoughts and prayers are with you all this year. Keep your head up high and be safe out there.

New Mexico

Anonymous
May 4, 2011

Laying another brother to rest tomorrow from Taylor PD. It has been a long four plus years since your passing and not a day goes by...I miss ya Jay. Gone but not forgotten.

Anonymous
July 28, 2010

I love you Jay and I miss You. Havent been able to write in some times but I have been out to see your grave site. I still dont think it was real. Fly safe and fly free you are with the angels now. God Bless

Stacy
Family
May 29, 2010

Thinking of you today....like most days.
Almost everyday we hear the tragic news of officers injured or killed...and we cringe. We cringe not only for the pain thier friends and family will now have to endure...but it always brings us back to day we all got the call 4 years ago.

I hope and more importantly pray....that we never get that call ever again. Jason...we will never forget~~~

Dispatcher
May 25, 2010

Its so hard for me to believe you've been gone for 4 years. That horrific day seems so close but so far. Even though I didn't know you well; I knew you well enough for the loss of you to have changed my life. RIP.

Tina
May 25, 2010

4 years brother and it seems like it was yesterday. Yesterday when you were here with us. Watch out for us and remember we will never forget.

Officer
DHPD
May 25, 2010

We remember you with love Jason. Nothing has been the same since that day 4 years ago. You were a hero for all of us. I visited your memorial and grave site today, Liz was in my heart visiting you also, since she could not be in town today. It is still hard for her to come home and see the DH police cars.You will never be forgotten.

DAC
May 25, 2010

I miss you more and more every day. All your humor and your thoughtfulness, you are what made our family complete. Amanda, Danny, and I talk about you every day and pictures of you are everywhere. Your my hero. I got the call driving in my car 4 sad years tonight, moms voice was cracking. I try to stay positive for that is what you would have wanted but there is so much pain in my heart. I wonder if you know I am writing this. Just need somewhere to be able to talk to you , coming home next month to visit you and mom. I LOVE YOU JASON ANTHONY MAKOWSKI, you are the best kid brother a girl could ask for. Tara

tara
sister
May 24, 2010

Last night at about 3am the 24th of May I sat at the dam White Castle talking with Szopko for a while. I got kinda restless when I realized 4 years to the date and time I was eatting at the same place with Jay about 16 hours before he got shot. I dont think I can deal with losing another friend the way we lost Jay.

Cpl Krot
Friend
May 24, 2010

Waking up dead inside of my head
Will never never do there is no med
No medicine to take

I've had a chance to be insane
Asylum from the falling rain
I've had a chance to break

It's so bad it's got to be good
Mysterious girl misunderstood
Dressed like a wedding cake

Any other day and I might play
A funeral march for Bonnie Brae
Why try and run away

[Chorus:]
Slow cheetah come
Before my forest
Looks like it's on today

Slow cheetah come
It's so euphoric
No matter what they say

I know a girl
She worked in a store
She knew not what
Her life was for
She barely knew her name

They tried to tell her
She would never be
As happy as the girl
In the magazine
She bought it with her pay

[Chorus]

Everyone has
So much to say
They talk talk talk
Their lives away
Don't even hesitate

Walking on down
To the burial ground
It's a very old dance
With a merry old sound
Looks like it's on today
Jason you are missed.

Cpl Krot
May 24, 2010

So there I was in midst of a busy day and I found myself sitting in front of your final resting place. As I read your name over and over again I couldn’t help but be taken back to the 24 May 2006. MAKOWSKI JASON A 1974 – 2006. God knows how many times I read that and to this day it has not gotten any easier. The fact that you are no longer physically among us is not fair but I know that you’re in a better place and that (somewhat) helps ease the pain. You guys were ambushed as you all responded to a 911 call for service and when that dreadful call came in and the dispatchers/police were informed that there “was an Officer down” everyone responded to help you, Jay – everyone - including surrounding cities. You had so much support and prayers that night and you still do. Rest easy Jay, you are missed and loved by so many. You will never be forgotten nor will your sacrifice. In 10 days it will be 4 years since you left us to return “home”… 4 years and it still feels like it was yesterday; the pain, the tears it never stops because you were taken way too soon and in such an unnatural and unfair way. Jason, you are missed and you are thought about daily.
–The Good Die Young—
In Valor There Is Hope, Rest Easy and Gods Speed, Jason.

Amy Jishi
DHS
May 15, 2010

Hey Bud, I stopped the other day and sat outside your final resting place. I sat for the longest time, freezing in the cold, and reading your name over and over. I thought that it was so unfair that you were taken so early. Its just not right, that some POS took you from us. Thank GOD, that he got his!!!!! Shout out to M M!!! Just wanted to say thanks again, for not only your ultimate sacrifice, but for, every day that you showed up, left roll call and went out to risk your ass, not only for anyone that called 911, but mostly, for realizing that you had a responsibility; to protect the brotherhood, and my friend, you did a great job at that!!! You gave it all, so someone else could go home that day, I miss you like hell, but thank you for fighting the good fight with us. Peace be with you.

close friend
DHPD
April 19, 2010

Thank you for the positive ,loving comments, this Christmas was just not the same without Jay, mom and dad. I need people to give me strength and I thank all that say nice positive things to me. Little Cameron is doing so good, just got a new doggie! Happy Holidays

tara
sister
December 30, 2009