In Memory of:
Officer Michael Leslie Krol
April 5, 1976 - July 7, 2016
Officer Michael Leslie Krol was born April 5, 1976 to Frank Joseph Krol Jr. and Susan Marlene Ehlke. He passed away tragically, while serving and protecting his community in Dallas, Texas July 7, 2016 at the age of 40.
In addition to his parents, Michael leaves behind to mourn him, his sister: Heather Suzanne Stacey, his brother: Frank "Joe" Joseph Krol III, and his sister: Amie Krol Schoenbaechler.
Family will receive guests for a visitation on Monday, July 18, 2016 at Harry J. Will Funeral Home Redford Township, Michigan.
The Funeral Mass will be Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church 27101 W. Chicago, Redford Township, Michigan.
Michael will be laid to rest by his family in Holy Sepulchre Catholic Cemetery.
Committal Service with Honors
July 12, 2016
Holy Sepulchre Catholic Cemetery
25800 W. Ten Mile Road
Southfield, Michigan
*Original Obituary from RFH in Dallas, Texas
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He'd worked difficult jobs, waited for years and moved more than 1,000 miles, but finally the day had come: Michael Krol was officially a police officer.
He stood there before the cameras, goofy grin and all, as his Michigan family crowded around to watch him hoist a certificate saying he had graduated from the Dallas Police Academy. It was April 25, 2008. Krol, then 32, still had a cherub face. And he seemed to have a long career ahead of him.
It came to a tragic halt Thursday night when a sniper took aim at officers at a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest, killing five of them, including Krol, 40. The news of his death reached his mother's doorstep in Redford, outside of Detroit, early Friday morning. Ever since, the family has been struggling to reconcile the gentle manner that they say defined Krol's life and the violence of his death. He never wanted to hurt anyone. He wanted to protect people. How could this happen?
"He was a big guy and had a big heart, and he was a really caring person and wanted to help people," said brother-in-law Brian Schoenbaechler, 44, a management consultant in Atlanta. "It doesn't seem real. His mom's had a difficult time."
Krol always wanted to be a cop. It was just a question of how he was going do it and where.
After high school, where he excelled at basketball and towered well over 6 feet, he took a job as a security guard at a Michigan hospital. There, Schoenbaechler said, his brother-in-law's two passions -- caring for and protecting others -- coalesced.
His brother-in-law remembered how Krol tended one sick older patient.
"I don't remember who it was," Schoenbaehler said, "but he stayed with that person and provided them with care and helped them to use the bathroom and stuff that most guys wouldn't do. And I was just like, 'Wow, that's powerful that he can help others in that way."
But that job was also a means to achieve his true goal. He parlayed his security experience into a job working in the Wayne County jail system. It wasn't glamorous, but he thought it was the only way he'd find a way to patrol the streets. "It was an opportunity for him to go from being a security guy to being a cop," his brother-in-law said.
Wayne County colleagues remembered his years of service. "We are saddened by the loss of the dedicated officers in Dallas - one of whom was a former member of this agency - and also the wounding of the other officers," Sheriff Benny Napoleon said in a statement Friday morning.
In 2007, Krol learned the Dallas police force was hiring so he took a gamble, leaving his community, family and friends to move 1,100 miles south to a city he barely knew, Schoenbaechler recalled. "He said, 'This is something that I wanted to do.'" So he did it.
And he kept on doing it, graduating from the police academy, making a new life in Dallas and meeting a significant girlfriend, all while remaining close to his family. When Krol's sister, Amy Schoenbaechler, had surgery a few years ago, he came and stayed with her family for two weeks in Atlanta and took care of the kids, her husband said. When they got together, Schoenbaechler would tip a few beers and listen to Krol tell "crazy" stories of life as a Dallas cop. But Krol himself, his sister remembered, never drank.
He was always in control. Always the calm one. Always the one to diffuse chaotic situations.
***Until he became the victim of one***
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**NOTE: Links below provided by contributor: Carolina.Tepee #47484641 on July 14, 2016. Thank you
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Victims of the Dallas Attack
Patrick Zamarripa
Michael Joseph Smith
Brent Alan Thompson
Michael Leslie Krol
Lorne Ahrens
Officer Michael Leslie Krol
April 5, 1976 - July 7, 2016
Officer Michael Leslie Krol was born April 5, 1976 to Frank Joseph Krol Jr. and Susan Marlene Ehlke. He passed away tragically, while serving and protecting his community in Dallas, Texas July 7, 2016 at the age of 40.
In addition to his parents, Michael leaves behind to mourn him, his sister: Heather Suzanne Stacey, his brother: Frank "Joe" Joseph Krol III, and his sister: Amie Krol Schoenbaechler.
Family will receive guests for a visitation on Monday, July 18, 2016 at Harry J. Will Funeral Home Redford Township, Michigan.
The Funeral Mass will be Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church 27101 W. Chicago, Redford Township, Michigan.
Michael will be laid to rest by his family in Holy Sepulchre Catholic Cemetery.
Committal Service with Honors
July 12, 2016
Holy Sepulchre Catholic Cemetery
25800 W. Ten Mile Road
Southfield, Michigan
*Original Obituary from RFH in Dallas, Texas
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He'd worked difficult jobs, waited for years and moved more than 1,000 miles, but finally the day had come: Michael Krol was officially a police officer.
He stood there before the cameras, goofy grin and all, as his Michigan family crowded around to watch him hoist a certificate saying he had graduated from the Dallas Police Academy. It was April 25, 2008. Krol, then 32, still had a cherub face. And he seemed to have a long career ahead of him.
It came to a tragic halt Thursday night when a sniper took aim at officers at a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest, killing five of them, including Krol, 40. The news of his death reached his mother's doorstep in Redford, outside of Detroit, early Friday morning. Ever since, the family has been struggling to reconcile the gentle manner that they say defined Krol's life and the violence of his death. He never wanted to hurt anyone. He wanted to protect people. How could this happen?
"He was a big guy and had a big heart, and he was a really caring person and wanted to help people," said brother-in-law Brian Schoenbaechler, 44, a management consultant in Atlanta. "It doesn't seem real. His mom's had a difficult time."
Krol always wanted to be a cop. It was just a question of how he was going do it and where.
After high school, where he excelled at basketball and towered well over 6 feet, he took a job as a security guard at a Michigan hospital. There, Schoenbaechler said, his brother-in-law's two passions -- caring for and protecting others -- coalesced.
His brother-in-law remembered how Krol tended one sick older patient.
"I don't remember who it was," Schoenbaehler said, "but he stayed with that person and provided them with care and helped them to use the bathroom and stuff that most guys wouldn't do. And I was just like, 'Wow, that's powerful that he can help others in that way."
But that job was also a means to achieve his true goal. He parlayed his security experience into a job working in the Wayne County jail system. It wasn't glamorous, but he thought it was the only way he'd find a way to patrol the streets. "It was an opportunity for him to go from being a security guy to being a cop," his brother-in-law said.
Wayne County colleagues remembered his years of service. "We are saddened by the loss of the dedicated officers in Dallas - one of whom was a former member of this agency - and also the wounding of the other officers," Sheriff Benny Napoleon said in a statement Friday morning.
In 2007, Krol learned the Dallas police force was hiring so he took a gamble, leaving his community, family and friends to move 1,100 miles south to a city he barely knew, Schoenbaechler recalled. "He said, 'This is something that I wanted to do.'" So he did it.
And he kept on doing it, graduating from the police academy, making a new life in Dallas and meeting a significant girlfriend, all while remaining close to his family. When Krol's sister, Amy Schoenbaechler, had surgery a few years ago, he came and stayed with her family for two weeks in Atlanta and took care of the kids, her husband said. When they got together, Schoenbaechler would tip a few beers and listen to Krol tell "crazy" stories of life as a Dallas cop. But Krol himself, his sister remembered, never drank.
He was always in control. Always the calm one. Always the one to diffuse chaotic situations.
***Until he became the victim of one***
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**NOTE: Links below provided by contributor: Carolina.Tepee #47484641 on July 14, 2016. Thank you
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Victims of the Dallas Attack
Patrick Zamarripa
Michael Joseph Smith
Brent Alan Thompson
Michael Leslie Krol
Lorne Ahrens
In Memory of:
Officer Michael Leslie Krol
April 5, 1976 - July 7, 2016
Officer Michael Leslie Krol was born April 5, 1976 to Frank Joseph Krol Jr. and Susan Marlene Ehlke. He passed away tragically, while serving and protecting his community in Dallas, Texas July 7, 2016 at the age of 40.
In addition to his parents, Michael leaves behind to mourn him, his sister: Heather Suzanne Stacey, his brother: Frank "Joe" Joseph Krol III, and his sister: Amie Krol Schoenbaechler.
Family will receive guests for a visitation on Monday, July 18, 2016 at Harry J. Will Funeral Home Redford Township, Michigan.
The Funeral Mass will be Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church 27101 W. Chicago, Redford Township, Michigan.
Michael will be laid to rest by his family in Holy Sepulchre Catholic Cemetery.
Committal Service with Honors
July 12, 2016
Holy Sepulchre Catholic Cemetery
25800 W. Ten Mile Road
Southfield, Michigan
*Original Obituary from RFH in Dallas, Texas
------------------------------------------
He'd worked difficult jobs, waited for years and moved more than 1,000 miles, but finally the day had come: Michael Krol was officially a police officer.
He stood there before the cameras, goofy grin and all, as his Michigan family crowded around to watch him hoist a certificate saying he had graduated from the Dallas Police Academy. It was April 25, 2008. Krol, then 32, still had a cherub face. And he seemed to have a long career ahead of him.
It came to a tragic halt Thursday night when a sniper took aim at officers at a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest, killing five of them, including Krol, 40. The news of his death reached his mother's doorstep in Redford, outside of Detroit, early Friday morning. Ever since, the family has been struggling to reconcile the gentle manner that they say defined Krol's life and the violence of his death. He never wanted to hurt anyone. He wanted to protect people. How could this happen?
"He was a big guy and had a big heart, and he was a really caring person and wanted to help people," said brother-in-law Brian Schoenbaechler, 44, a management consultant in Atlanta. "It doesn't seem real. His mom's had a difficult time."
Krol always wanted to be a cop. It was just a question of how he was going do it and where.
After high school, where he excelled at basketball and towered well over 6 feet, he took a job as a security guard at a Michigan hospital. There, Schoenbaechler said, his brother-in-law's two passions -- caring for and protecting others -- coalesced.
His brother-in-law remembered how Krol tended one sick older patient.
"I don't remember who it was," Schoenbaehler said, "but he stayed with that person and provided them with care and helped them to use the bathroom and stuff that most guys wouldn't do. And I was just like, 'Wow, that's powerful that he can help others in that way."
But that job was also a means to achieve his true goal. He parlayed his security experience into a job working in the Wayne County jail system. It wasn't glamorous, but he thought it was the only way he'd find a way to patrol the streets. "It was an opportunity for him to go from being a security guy to being a cop," his brother-in-law said.
Wayne County colleagues remembered his years of service. "We are saddened by the loss of the dedicated officers in Dallas - one of whom was a former member of this agency - and also the wounding of the other officers," Sheriff Benny Napoleon said in a statement Friday morning.
In 2007, Krol learned the Dallas police force was hiring so he took a gamble, leaving his community, family and friends to move 1,100 miles south to a city he barely knew, Schoenbaechler recalled. "He said, 'This is something that I wanted to do.'" So he did it.
And he kept on doing it, graduating from the police academy, making a new life in Dallas and meeting a significant girlfriend, all while remaining close to his family. When Krol's sister, Amy Schoenbaechler, had surgery a few years ago, he came and stayed with her family for two weeks in Atlanta and took care of the kids, her husband said. When they got together, Schoenbaechler would tip a few beers and listen to Krol tell "crazy" stories of life as a Dallas cop. But Krol himself, his sister remembered, never drank.
He was always in control. Always the calm one. Always the one to diffuse chaotic situations.
***Until he became the victim of one***
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**NOTE: Links below provided by contributor: Carolina.Tepee #47484641 on July 14, 2016. Thank you
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Victims of the Dallas Attack
Patrick Zamarripa
Michael Joseph Smith
Brent Alan Thompson
Michael Leslie Krol
Lorne Ahrens
Officer Michael Leslie Krol
April 5, 1976 - July 7, 2016
Officer Michael Leslie Krol was born April 5, 1976 to Frank Joseph Krol Jr. and Susan Marlene Ehlke. He passed away tragically, while serving and protecting his community in Dallas, Texas July 7, 2016 at the age of 40.
In addition to his parents, Michael leaves behind to mourn him, his sister: Heather Suzanne Stacey, his brother: Frank "Joe" Joseph Krol III, and his sister: Amie Krol Schoenbaechler.
Family will receive guests for a visitation on Monday, July 18, 2016 at Harry J. Will Funeral Home Redford Township, Michigan.
The Funeral Mass will be Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church 27101 W. Chicago, Redford Township, Michigan.
Michael will be laid to rest by his family in Holy Sepulchre Catholic Cemetery.
Committal Service with Honors
July 12, 2016
Holy Sepulchre Catholic Cemetery
25800 W. Ten Mile Road
Southfield, Michigan
*Original Obituary from RFH in Dallas, Texas
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He'd worked difficult jobs, waited for years and moved more than 1,000 miles, but finally the day had come: Michael Krol was officially a police officer.
He stood there before the cameras, goofy grin and all, as his Michigan family crowded around to watch him hoist a certificate saying he had graduated from the Dallas Police Academy. It was April 25, 2008. Krol, then 32, still had a cherub face. And he seemed to have a long career ahead of him.
It came to a tragic halt Thursday night when a sniper took aim at officers at a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest, killing five of them, including Krol, 40. The news of his death reached his mother's doorstep in Redford, outside of Detroit, early Friday morning. Ever since, the family has been struggling to reconcile the gentle manner that they say defined Krol's life and the violence of his death. He never wanted to hurt anyone. He wanted to protect people. How could this happen?
"He was a big guy and had a big heart, and he was a really caring person and wanted to help people," said brother-in-law Brian Schoenbaechler, 44, a management consultant in Atlanta. "It doesn't seem real. His mom's had a difficult time."
Krol always wanted to be a cop. It was just a question of how he was going do it and where.
After high school, where he excelled at basketball and towered well over 6 feet, he took a job as a security guard at a Michigan hospital. There, Schoenbaechler said, his brother-in-law's two passions -- caring for and protecting others -- coalesced.
His brother-in-law remembered how Krol tended one sick older patient.
"I don't remember who it was," Schoenbaehler said, "but he stayed with that person and provided them with care and helped them to use the bathroom and stuff that most guys wouldn't do. And I was just like, 'Wow, that's powerful that he can help others in that way."
But that job was also a means to achieve his true goal. He parlayed his security experience into a job working in the Wayne County jail system. It wasn't glamorous, but he thought it was the only way he'd find a way to patrol the streets. "It was an opportunity for him to go from being a security guy to being a cop," his brother-in-law said.
Wayne County colleagues remembered his years of service. "We are saddened by the loss of the dedicated officers in Dallas - one of whom was a former member of this agency - and also the wounding of the other officers," Sheriff Benny Napoleon said in a statement Friday morning.
In 2007, Krol learned the Dallas police force was hiring so he took a gamble, leaving his community, family and friends to move 1,100 miles south to a city he barely knew, Schoenbaechler recalled. "He said, 'This is something that I wanted to do.'" So he did it.
And he kept on doing it, graduating from the police academy, making a new life in Dallas and meeting a significant girlfriend, all while remaining close to his family. When Krol's sister, Amy Schoenbaechler, had surgery a few years ago, he came and stayed with her family for two weeks in Atlanta and took care of the kids, her husband said. When they got together, Schoenbaechler would tip a few beers and listen to Krol tell "crazy" stories of life as a Dallas cop. But Krol himself, his sister remembered, never drank.
He was always in control. Always the calm one. Always the one to diffuse chaotic situations.
***Until he became the victim of one***
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**NOTE: Links below provided by contributor: Carolina.Tepee #47484641 on July 14, 2016. Thank you
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Victims of the Dallas Attack
Patrick Zamarripa
Michael Joseph Smith
Brent Alan Thompson
Michael Leslie Krol
Lorne Ahrens
