Slain cop's mom says she died 'doing what she was called to do'
Posted August 19, 2021 1:00 am
Ella French was 8 months old, wearing a "serious and solemn face," when Elizabeth French, who would take her in first as a foster child and later adopt her, met her.
"I knelt down because she was so small," the mother said in an interview at her home after her daughter, a Chicago police officer, was shot to death during a traffic stop in West Englewood.
"And I tell people I must have passed a test because, all of a sudden, this huge, gigantic smile appeared on her face. After that, I was in constant prayer that she would be able to stay with me."
Becoming Ella French's mother, she said, will always be one of the proudest moments of her life.
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