Making a Big Difference in the Lives of Many Children - October 2024
Comedy Night FundraiserWe will be holding a Comedy Night Fundraiser on November 2, 2024, at 6:30pm at Princeton Station in No. Chelmsford, MA. Tickets are still available.
We will be introducing the members of our 2025 Boston Marathon Team at this event. All proceeds from this event went to support the Officer Sean Collier Marathon Team’s fundraising goals. Helping to find lost children (or seniors), getting the bad guys, etc.,Dracut Police K-9 Unit(This is an example of how your donations keep on giving back to our community)The Memorial Fund donated $2,000 to the Town of Dracut to help defray the cost of acquiring a new K-9 officer. The Department’s current dog, K-9 Viper, is scheduled to retire next year. K-9 Viper is a Dutch Shepard that joined the Dracut Police Department in 2013. K-9 Division | Dracut, MA
We have assisted in searches with the DEA, ATF, and FBI. I am very proud of the job we have done as a team and now I am very excited to carry on that tradition with a new K9 partner. Your donation will help the Town of Dracut and Dracut Police Department purchase a new K9 which we expect to receive in mid November. With the assistance of the Boston K9 Academy lead trainer, we have selected a 1 year old Belgian Malinois. Viper will retire and enjoy his time living with myself and my family at home. Foundations such as yours work tirelessly to provide for others in times of need and it is so admirable to see. I have been a part of many of the events held by the Sean Collier Memorial Foundation and I am always so impressed by the honorable work that you guys do. I am so honored as a police officer and a friend of the Sean Collier Foundation team, to be considered and awarded a donation from such a great foundation. I intend to represent not only the Town of Dracut and Dracut Police department with pride and honor as a new K9 team, but also the Sean Collier Memorial Foundation, as this would not be possible without you. Again I can not thank you enough for the generous donation and I look forward to the members of your team meeting the new K9, when he and I graduate from a future K9 academy." Respectfully, Ofc. Zachariah L. Coleman Dracut Police K9 Unit
Annual Golf Tournament at Four Oaks Country Club In September, the Memorial Fund had its Annual Golf Tournament. We honored several heroes. On December 6, 2023, Waltham Police Officer Paul Tracey and National Grid worker Roderick Jackson were killed when a man crashed into a utility work site and then drove off. Each family received $5,000 from the Memorial Fund. Also, in recognition of their sacrifice, we arranged for students from the Greater Lowell Technical High School to build a bench in memory of Officer Tracey and Roderick Jackson, which will be displayed at the new Waltham Police Station. Greater Lowell Tech students receive scholarships from Collier Fund (lowellsun.com) We also pledged $5,000 to the Town of Billerica in memory of Sergeant Ian Taylor, who was killed while helping to move a large tractor-trailer at a roadside construction site at the intersection of Boston Road and Pollard Road when an excavator struck him. The grant to the Town will go to youth programs for children in Billerica. St. Ann’s Home & School St. Ann’s Home & School is a residential treatment center for children with serious emotional, behavioral, and mental health challenges. The Memorial Fund donated to St. Ann’s for the purchase of MP3 players for the incoming students. These MP3 players have a soothing effect on children. https://www.st.annshome.org/ |
"I want to send my appreciation for the generous donation to the Dracut Police K9 program. My current K9 partner, Viper is 12 years old and due to retire. Viper and I have been a K9 team for 11 years and have had great support from the town and community. We have served in Dracut, been a member of NEMLEC for 9 years, assisting over 65 towns and cities with missing persons and suspects, crowd control, and SWAT callouts.
Make sure to check out all the events we have established and hosted over the past 5 years to raise funds for the children. |
The Officer Sean A. Collier Memorial Fund was established to honor the memory of Sean A. Collier who was Killed In the Line of Duty by the Boston Marathon Bombers on April 18, 2013.
Memorial Fund Background
On April 15, 2013, two explosives went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three and wounding 264 people. The three killed by the explosions were 29-year-old Krystle Campbell, 8-year-old Martin Richard and 23-year-old Lingzi Lu.
Three days later, on April 18, 2013, at approximately 10:30 pm, Patrol Officer Collier was shot and killed by the two suspects wanted for the terrorist bomb attack during the Boston Marathon. Officer Collier was ambushed and shot multiple times by the suspects while seated in his patrol car on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Officer Collier was transported to the hospital where he died.
The bombing suspects were tracked to Watertown, MA were there was a shootout with law enforcement officers. One of the suspects was killed and Massachusetts Bay Transportation Police Officer Richard H. Donohue Jr. (a Police Academy classmate of Sean’s) was critically wounded but survived. Boston Police Department officer Dennis Simmonds was injured by an explosive device and he died of this injuries almost a year later on April 10, 2014. Eight other officers were also injured in the shootout with law enforcement officers.
The second suspect was apprehended the following day, tried and by unanimous decision sentenced to death on May 15, 2015.