Community mourns Tuscaloosa Police officer killed in line of duty
Last year, University Place principal Nakelya Mullins learned about a family with two young children that was living in a local park.
She asked her school social worker to call Tuscaloosa Police Officer Dornell Cousette, who she’d known from her time growing up in Aliceville, and later working with children in Tuscaloosa.
She had his desk number, his office cell and his personal cell. He was the kind of person who would answer at any time, day or night, always willing to do what he could to help someone in need. The kind of police officer who was always on duty, whether or not he was on the clock.
“He helped with this family I called about, and he literally gave the little girl the jacket off his back,” Mullins said. “That’s how he was.”
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