I commend you (photographer Amber Trillo) for your "Honoring a hero - Steve Cox" photo gallery. If I could find the words, I would, but this is too gut wrenching.

My wife and I had driven by an impressive crime scene on our way home to West Seattle in the aftermath of the crime without knowing what had happened. When I got home, turned on the news, and heard the name, I could only say to my wife, "Oh no. The deputy who writes the White Center crime articles for the Herald was killed."

I only knew him through the Herald. I liked what I knew. He could write.

Thank you for the photographs.

John Leonard

Junction