NEWARK, Del — Thousands of Delaware residents lined up for more than a mile Saturday to pay tribute to Trooper Matthew “Ty” Snook, who was killed while working overtime at a Division of Motor Vehicles office on Dec. 23.<\/p>\n
About 3,500 cars now display a memorial sticker on their back windshield in honor of Snook, who served with the Delaware State Police for a decade and leaves behind a wife and a 1-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n
“I was blind sighted to be honest with you,” said Judi Enright of Newark, who arrived at 7:30 a.m. for the 9 a.m. drive-thru event and was second in line. “Who would have thought that somebody sitting behind a desk would end up like that. A trooper no less.”<\/p>\n
Others showed up even earlier. Glen Mumley of Middletown said he left home at 4 a.m. and arrived at Troop 2 in Newark on Corporal Steven Ballard Way by 5:30.<\/p>\n
“I just want to support the family and the state troopers,” Mumley said. “They do so much for us, and nobody appreciates it.”<\/p>\n
The event, organized by the Blue Line Network, served as both a fundraiser for Snook’s family and a show of support for law enforcement.<\/p>\n
“When the community comes together, and law enforcement comes together, it gives everybody time to heal,” said Darren McCarnan, co-founder of the Blue Line Network.<\/p>\n
Robert Quirk, also a co-founder, said the turnout was overwhelming.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been a law enforcement officer myself for 26 years and just seeing the overwhelming support of people coming out here to get this memorial sticker really makes me feel good,” Quirk said.<\/p>\n
Snook’s funeral is scheduled for Monday at the University of Delaware, beginning at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWARK, Del — Thousands of Delaware residents lined up for more than a mile Saturday to pay tribute…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[188467,23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-387781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-188467","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}