Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

My thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of Trooper Cosslett. May God comfort us all at this most difficult time.

Investigator Vic Ingram
Pittsylvania County, Virginia Sheriff's Office

My heart and prayers go out to the wife, young children, family and co-workers of Trooper Cosslett. May God help you through this very difficult time and remember that he is now in a safer place watching over us all. Let the kids always know what a true HERO their dad was. Rest in peace Trooper Cosslett.

Deb Azure
Mother of Deputy Renee Azure, EOW 08/06/2002

My prayers go out to Trooper Cosslett's family.

Vicky Dav idson
Seattle, Washington

God Bless Trooper Cosslett. May time heal the heart and soul of his family. He is now an angel with a badge working a higher beat.

God Bless

LEO Wife
NJ

Mark became a very dear friend to me in just a short period of time. I know that he was proud to be a VA State Trooper and I know that he exerted his last breath doing his very best at what he loved.

Mark will be sorely missed, he was a wonderful human being. I fervently pray for his family, they will need all of our prayers to help them through this.

I will miss Mark and I pray for comfort to all of you that miss him also.

Jeffery Payne
Pensacola, Florida

May God bless Trooper Cosslett's soul. I know that the Virginia State Police has had their hands full with the current state of emergency in the Greater DC area. I am sure he as responding with bravery and honor when the Lord took him home!

Police Officer R. Smith
Seattle PD

May GOD be with the family and friends of Trooper Mark Cosslett. He is a HERO for his service.

I met Mark for the first time when I worked in the radio room at Division VII Headquarters. At the time Mark was a Trooper-Agent with BCI working on many drug related cases and being new to the department I had yet to meet him. One night he tried to enter the locked building through the front door and I would not let him in. Working undercover on many occasions, Mark had let his hair grow quite long and had plenty of facial hair. In all honesty, he looked more like a "street bum" than he did a trooper at the time. Thinking I was doing good by not letting him in the building, I later discovered he was a member of the department when he displayed his badge and ID card.

Throughout my tenure in the radio room and before I became a trooper myself with the department Mark would constantly give me a hard time about that night. He always thought it was funny and I think it made him proud to know that he had fooled me to thinking he was some bum.

As a young trooper with the department I can only hope that I can carry on the tradition that Mark helped create over 16 years of dedication. I will always remember his smile, his sense of humor, his eagerness to work and help others, and most of all his dedication to the department. Mark, you are and always will be a Trooper's Trooper and Blue and Gray shall always be apart of you.

In closing, I begin my tour of duty with this department as a trooper as you conclude yours, and I only hope that I grow to be a tooper as well rounded and dedicated as yourself. You will be missed, but never forgotten as we, all troopers, continue in your mission...to serve and protect the Commonwealth of Virgina.

God Bless you my friend,

Tpr. S. R. Mittendorff U-1252

Trooper S. R. Mittendorff
Virginia State Police