Police pack Texas football stands for fallen officer’s son at his first game

By Allison Klein 

Dozens of police officers showed up to support Joaquin Espericueta at his middle-school football game Saturday. (City of Mission)

It was Joaquin Espericueta’s first middle-school football game and his first game since his father was killed.His father, Jose “Speedy” Espericueta, a corporal with the Mission, Tex., police department, was fatally shot responding to a call in June — the department’s first officer killed in the line of duty in 40 years.

Everyone who knew Espericueta knew how much he bonded with his son over football and how excited he was for his son’s football debut on the Cathey Middle School team in McAllen, Tex.

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