Metro-Dade Police Department, Florida
End of Watch Wednesday, May 16, 1979
Reflections for Police Officer William Coleman Cook
Vital vigilance is as essential as dignified diligence. A man decorated in integrity and honesty everyday, Officer Cook, they were partners of loyalty to a very treasured gentleman. Dade County was a community blessed and supported by your journeys and missions of earthly proportions. You won't ever be forgotten doing yeoman service that created an atmosphere of peace and liberty among the people. We salute you for virtue, vision and all the versatility that wisdom rings in. Truth, faith and resiliency were all trusted as your hunts for peace, goodwill and justice were totally unselfish and unwavering. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. An angel who stood for right and never let his family and comrades down.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 21, 2025
To all who bare their brave and heroic hearts and souls may you all receive God's humble honored blessings for your solemn service on behalf of mankind. Humanity is in indebted to you as are your communities where dignity, character ans integrity helped restore peace instead of violence and evil perpetrating their accentuated meaness. You protected the good citizens of Dade County, Officer Cook, with an extra special compassion, intensed decency and a dedication that rose beyond youe earthly responsibilities. You shared in our purposes and peaceful movements going forward and it's forever been a shame and tragedy that Mr.Pearsall robbed you of your sacred rights to freedom and to live beyond retirement. Truth, faith and the essential resourcefulness that marked your pilgrimages and journeys on behalf of us. Serenity, safety and security should never exact any toll or loss your sacrifice, Officer Cook and your badge of virtue, leadership and wisdom, #1664 spelled out respect among your peers of whom you were very loyal to. Vigilant and diligent forevermore saluted and humbly remembered and blessed as an angel from above where you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Commitment and convictions all first rate and first class never giving anything less for the sake of heaven.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 21, 2025
We hope the Tidwell and Wilkerson's have a happy Easter and your name, heroic dignity, integrity and honor are always etched within their hearts and souls for your heroic life and career blessings and serving the good folks of Dade County with peace and cherished stability and safety. Officer Cook, you were unselfish and unrelenting in patrolling your beloved community and for having upstanding and outstanding character, commitment and the trust and true convictions may your angelic spirit rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. We salute your virtue, vision and wisom are vitally important in a life filled with sacred and humble tenacity, fortitude and ambition.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 20, 2025
Your life and heroically humble, loyal and esteemed professional career, Officer Cook, ended way too soon an dthough you served Dade County with excellence, pride and heart and soul you'll forever be anglically saluted for being honorable, dignified and a man of faith, devotion and character. True and trustworthy commitment and convictions all clearly marked during your sacred of missions. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 19, 2025
Where are we today? Are we better off now or when you protected Dade County Officer Cook? The answers could be baffling. Peace and tranquility still at times lag behind but you only gave your one hundred percent effort daily. Our stability and serenity all came because of your unselfish heroism and humble blessings God bestowed upon your heart and soul. A human being with complete dignity, character and integrity striving to give his all in commitment and dedicated convictions the true and trusted servant full of vim, vigor andunwavering virtue, sacred versatility and important diligence and vigilance from a wise and noble warrior now one of Our Creator's many heroic angels patrolling the gates and streets above. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Loyalty, esteem and intuition all outstanding.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 18, 2025
Life pursuits are what our lives are about. Your career and heroic life, Officer Cook, spelled out the essentials of why peace, stability and safety are needed for mankind to survive and to thrive. A man's faith, devotion and honesty all meshed well with character, dignity and integrity made Dade County well served and you'll always be remembered and saluted for virtue, vision and wisdom true and trustworthy beyond your years. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 18, 2025
Everything in life can be a challenge and those who overcome these crucial moments chances are will succeed in their life efforts. Dade County will be indebted to you forevermore, Officer Cook, you are their hero and of course your family's. Such a distinguished young man who sacrificed every bone in his young body, every ounce of dignity, every breath of integrity, every energetic honesty given to provide us with peace, safety and channeled prosperity never more bold, loyal and totally unselfish and most blessed for its valid heroism to be saluted and never overlooked. You resolved danger. You answered the calls of duty and were accentuated in all you pursued in life and during your police career cut short way too soon because of evil. The
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 17, 2025
Life is experiences beyond our wildest dreams and expectations. No one ever expected this outcome, Officer Cook, of you not being here today to live and to thrive in a beautiful marriage with your beloved Karen. Your family has continued your inspirational fortitudes going forward enlarging your heroic legacy stamped in honest and sincere loyalty, esteem and regards. And Dade County folks have a semblance of peace and prosperity thanks to your sacrifice of character, truth and the trustworthiness of character, dignity and integrity. It protected us and served you well during your vitally important six years of treasured service to mankind. A man blessed with an abundance of heart and soul so very determined and faithfully compassionate while patrolling your community for a relevance of goodwill, hope and dedication. Badge#1664 will always be saluted and paid angelic homage for rescuing the citizens and your humbly heroic comrades from danger, peril and grief beyond anyone's eyes and ears. You spoke gently and stayed as calm as any man of woman of unselfish and unwavering reverence, diligence and vigilance must. Keep watching over your adored family as you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 17, 2025
A wonderful young man that you will always be heroically saluted and remembered for, Officer Cook. Just really sad we could not have ever met and broken bread together as friends. But, Dade County, your department and family will never ever forget the engaging gentleman of faith, character and moral values that enhanced your life and career though dangerous you lived with an unselfish heart and soul of decency, desire and pure dedication to serving and protecting us and our safe trails and paths. It's honesty, dignity and integrity being those three excellent and enriching insurance policies that govern our purposes and aspirational dreams. Your accomplishments and success were summoned to heaven where for the last forty-six years you have walked that beat of perfection blessed with scrupulous humility and loyalty. The esteem and commitment, convictions always true and trustworthy were crystal clear just as your eagle eyes, virtue and wisdom beyond your twenty-five years the good Lord allowed you to live and to thrive until that tragic day of May 16, 1979 when violence robbed you of continuing to see your missions and journeys of faith and effort through until retirement. Forever a beloved and humanely purposeful angel, rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 17, 2025
The trails and paths you blazed, Officer Cook, will always be noted and surely remembered because of the type of man, a professional public servant who cared greatly for your community of Dade County where you served, protected and defended the people from evil and wanton violence. Forever a warrior of loyalty, honesty and the character of both dignity and integrity. You will be saluted for virtue, valor and versatility all so visual and so wise precisely beyond your years. Faith tells us God puts us in different situations in which we must solve and endeavor to figure out solutions to perilous dilemmas of which you dealt with. By having commitment and convictions all truly trusted and by being duly diligent, unselfishly unwavering, concerned and compassionate we can comprehend why the angel in you will always look over your family from above as you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 16, 2025
Police may not literally move mountains. They do have to eliminate crime from a community, a tall order and never simple. The responsibilities and character that must accompany honesty, dignity and integrity are arduous and yet, Officer Cook, the hero whose unselfish and unwavering heart and soul answered the calls of duty beyond what was required of you. Dade County will never forget understanding and compassion brought their direction by a blessed, cherished and humble angel now patrolling God's heavenly kingdom where your virtue, vision and versatility were all wise and proficient just as the endeavors poured forth. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Your family, colleagues have all missed you terribly but they march forward with your legacy of commitment and conviction all true and trustworthy.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 16, 2025
A son, brother, husband, uncle, great-uncle who is forever adored, beloved and certainly a Dade County police hero. What you represented in everything humble and blessed in the words of honor, dignity and integrity that and more, Officer Cook, made you the public servant so proud to wear a badge of bravery and to don a uniform replete with truth, trust and fairness to be unwavering and unselfishly dynamic in all your virtue, versatility and vision. Wisdom beyond your twenty-five years of experience leading other fellow officers through peril and with character, conviction and excellent commitment the tasks and onuses were completed just sad your life ended way too soon because of a heinous and vile individual. You'll be cherished and saluted for your efforts, energy and efficiency giving your heart and soul to quash violence. May you rest in peace my neighbor, hero, friend and angel always remain in God's palms of compassion and care.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 15, 2025
Officer Cook, you will forever be remembered and saluted as a Dade County hero of honor, integrity and dignity who fortified the citizens with peace and security to be recognized. Character, commitment and conviction all truly angelike and surely trustworthy. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Trails and paths paved for other brave men and women who don a uniform and wear a badge of humility, heart and unselfish dedication, faithfulness and accountable onus.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 15, 2025
A man with devotion, faith and heroic honor who sacrificed his life and public service career for Dade County to continue its purposes and who shall be saluted as you always are, Officer Cook and never forgotten. Dignity, integrity and character forever going with a full head of steam bringing us our serenity, peace of mind and safety forever cherished and loyal and esteemed. Truth, trustworthiness and commitment undertaken with dedication, determination and warrior like tenacity by a blessed and humble angel. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 14, 2025
A long day whenever police must due their official duties, roles of reliability and onus that solemnly must be honored, dignified and carried out. Loyalty and esteem must follow eachand every angel of heroism and valor down the trails and paths of perseverance, effort and devotion as you so humbly did, Officer Cook, on behalf of Dade County bringing serenity and stability closer to each house. Now and forever an angel of the truest character, commitment and conviction may you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 11, 2025
Follow the leader and you'll not go wrong if honesty, integrity and dignity are sewed together with character, commitment and conviction. Of course yours, Officer Cook, were spot on when defending Dade County's safety and tranquil paths and trails of truth and trust. A man whose unwavering and unselfish ideals, morals and valued scruples set and raised that bar of intelligence, intuition and ingenuity. The streets and corners were blazed by your satisfaction and complete cherished and loyal soul and heart of nobility and sanctity. Everyone who knew you, Officer Cook, recognizes the everpresent hero within your spirit and now in eternity may God's grace shine down upon you as you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Your legacy outlines righteousness, congeniality and versatility on par with wisdom, vision and virtue because you cared and badge#1664 was reverently diligent and vigilant at every turn and every assignment placed your way.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 10, 2025
The senses must function justly for true and trusted justice to become accentuated within a given community. Your special and precious heart, soul and spirit, Officer Cook, gave its excellence and integrity to all Dade County where dignity, character and humane honored really belonged. Your family of course wishes you were here and yet they remember the gladiator of gallantry whose responsibilities covered every base. Every corner and street served and protected by your loyal esteem as you remain cherished and saluted forevermore for unselfish and unwavering virtue, vision and wisdom connected to diligence, conviction, commitment and angelic vigilance. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Serenity, safety and security was given to our community by a most humbly and blessed righteous servant of Our Maker. Badge#1664 was respected and appreciative of each opportunity to channel your efforts into making mankind feel secure once more.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 10, 2025
Service of the heart and soul added with sacrifice of character, dignity and integrity this was your angelic bravery, Officer Cook, that assisted you greatly in stemming the tide of terror here in Dade County. A venue you called come and grew up to become a man on a mission of loyalty, esteem and virtue. Peace, health and safety were brought upon by your cherished commitment, conviction and all the truthfulness that lies in the pillars of perseverance and trustworthiness. Never forgotten and always saluted for versatility as your vehicles of your special patrols of pride, engagement and unrelenting enhancement. Your legacy is securely fastened by ferocity, tenacity and all the endeavors put forth in diligence and vigilance. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 9, 2025
You were a very blessed, adored and heroic young man, Officer Cook and you sadly left your family, comrades and this world much too soon because of one man's fixation for violence and mayhem with Dade County and its citizens. You surely were passionate about your public service career, open and honest, a gentleman filled with a spirit of unselfish and unwavering dignity, integrity and character. There was never a doubt you were succeed in any endeavors you undertook. But God had a plan and He must have needed you to patrol the streets of heaven where your angelic and truly trustworthy heart and soul would make a difference. You brokered and created goodwill, peace of mind and purpose for your family and for the public at large to continue in. May Our Lord provide your family with health, peace and blessings as they get ready for Easter coming up and my family for celebrating Passover. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Commitment and conviction can only occur when due diligence and sincere vigilance occur as one unit.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 9, 2025
The pressure to succeed mounts and what must be amplified is one's good judgment, honesty, integrity and dignity of character and commitment in all convictions. You served heroically all the people of Dade County, Officer Cook, under tremendous duress during a challenging afternoon there in Liberty City along with your last partner and two comrades and you exerted yourself in an unwavering and unselfish manner trying your utmost to calm a wayward and violent man down. You sir my neighbor, friend and angelic hero have a legacy that is one built on the truth and trust of loyalty, faithfulness and the sincere and sacred missions of devotion, grit and determination poured forth to sprout peace, stability and understanding. The reasons and purposes for which mankind accentuates and facilitates its principles and lives of justice and peace on a daily basis. You are to be remembered, saluted and rewarded by Our Creator for living a life of piety and for performing a career tough, yet humbly rewarding to those willingly to undertake the many tasks, challenges and pitfalls that lied ahead. For diligence and vigilance may your special and precious soul be kept in God's palms of perfect perseverance forevermore. Rest in peace Officer Cook. Badge#1664 was replete with grace, goodwill and common sense that highlighted your community patrols of patience and intuitive ingenuity.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 8, 2025
The highest compliment is one where ther eis no fanfare. You went about your professional business, Officer Cook. serving and protecting the people of Dade County with honest dignity, integrity and always loyal, true and trustworthy character, commitment and heroic convictions. Our stability and liberty all came about because of you and your unselfish heart and soul of virtue, sanctity and the responsibility you ushered into every patrol, every ounce of energy mustered to create the atmospheres of goodwill, fairness and true justice for mankind. An angel to be humbly saluted as you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 8, 2025
Meant to say your ascension, Officer Cook, may very well have happened if a violent young man did not take you so soon while defending the rights and civility of Dade County residents. A very loyal and humble hero whose dignity, integrity and honor were utilized day after day to protect us and you'll be saluted and solemnly paid homage for a job well done. Missions of true trust and faith bearing unwavering and unselfish results. That afternoon of May 16,1979, you acted as trained and performed your onuses with every solid fiber of vigilance, vision, virtue and angelic versatility that lies where you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero of character, conviction and the loyalty of commitments to excel and create paths and trails of which your legend keeps abounding. A tool for others for other men and women brave and honorable to follow in.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 7, 2025
Yesterday, Officer Cook, I met a gentleman named Irving Heller and for forty-five years he was employed with the Metro-Dade Police Department. He worked his way up the ranks and was the director at some point in his long public service career. You ascension may very well have happened if not for being taken by violence at the evil hands of a wayward man. Dade County was served by a loyal and esteemed man of integrity, honesty, dignity and character all the articles of faithfulness, resourcefulness and trusted and true allegiance. You will always be remembered and saluted for versatility, vision and virtue which surrounded your unselfish heart and soul at every moment. Now and forever your family's beloved guardian angel whose legacy shines as bright as the nighttime stars may you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Paths and trails created by a man blessed with proper values, morals and ideals. He was the highest Jewish officer in your department and his son, Randy worked there as well rising through thr ranks.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 7, 2025
Women and men of character, honored commitment and convictions all require salutes of virtue, heroic dignity and integrity. You cannot have professional public servants patrolling the streets for chaos and mayhem who are not themselves civil minded individuals as you always were, Officer Cook. Shielding Dade County from harm while exposing yourself to the very samething we hope never robs us of peace, liberty and the freedom of which to pursue lives of purpose and practicality. You are to be remembered and saluted for being an unselfish and nobly cherished gentleman of true allegiance, faith and the ideals of a man with sense and intuition now and forever angelic. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero knowing God watches over your sweet and precious heart, soul and spirit of which legends are humbly created from. You gave a sacrifice that will remain esteemed and loyal forevermore.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 6, 2025
We pay tolls to drive on certain roads. Police toil, exert and spend every ounce of heroic dignity, honesty and integrity to safely secure our very homes where our freedoms and purposes lie. You paid the ultimate price, Officer Cook, in order for Dade County and its citizens to live peacefully, fruitfully and constructively. No doubt your legendary and proud name shall be remembered and nobily saluted for having the resourcefulness, faithfulness and always present ferocity to conquer evil and violence where no other person would dare go. A gentleman with unselfish trust and truth making their solemn patrols around the boundaries of a community you called home and where you forever rest in angelic peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Character, commitment and conviction are both wisdom and virtues heroes of intelligence, ingenuity and intuition. Cherished and surely saluted for such humbly blessed and sacred journeys undertaken to make mankind prosperous once again.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 5, 2025