At graduation, cop fills in for parents killed by drunk driver

Photo:  Lindsey Fruge.

In Orange County, Texas, police Lt. Eric Ellison had the worst job any cop can have: He had to tell Kazzie Portie, 18, that his parents were dead, killed in a car crash a week ago Sunday when their car was hit by a drunk driver.

Young Kazzie was to graduate from high school last weekend, but now his parents wouldn’t be there to watch him get a diploma.

So Lt. Ellison filled in.

“I had to be the bearer of bad news for him, and I felt that was just the right thing to do,” Ellison told Buzzfeed.

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“The life struggles you see out here, it was rough on the kid, on the family,” Lt. Ellison told a local TV station. “Sometimes life is not fair but you have to go on and I think Kazz is going to do that.”