I, Don Cox, Husband of Janie Cox
Would like to give my interpolation of the events that conspired on the day my brother in-law Damon Walker was buried in Granite, Oklahoma. We all handle grief an a different manner.
We arrived at the Granite Funeral home and went inside to attend the funeral.
At no time did I hear my wife speak of any bullets or weapons of harm.
During the funeral my wife’s grief was great.
She practically raised Damon from a child to a young man. So you can imagine the grief she had in loosing her little brother. You have to understand that Damon was preceded in death was by his Mother, Father and older brother, Leaving only my wife, her sister and one other brother.
At the end of the funeral during the viewing of the body, my wife asked to be the last one to be with her little brother, she was refused this last wish! She was so rudely told by the funeral director that she could see him now or they were closing the casket. As we drove in procession to the grave site I saw the police directing traffic.
When we arrived at the grave site my wife, her Aunts and I were walking up to the grave site when I noticed two police officers waking hurriedly towards us. One of the officers asked my wife if she was Mrs. Bell. My wife and I were completely caught off guard as my wife’s mothers first name was Bell. My wife responded by saying excuse me? And the officer again asked my wife if her name was Bell. My wife said no, and I spoke and said that she was my wife Janie Cox.
The officer said he had a report of my wife having a bullet!! My wife told him she had no bullet and that she only had a prayer cloth and a Bible. I spoke to the officer asking him what this was all about. He said that he was told that Janie had a bullet and that there was not going to be any trouble at the grave site. I stepped in and told him that we were not there to give no one any trouble but to only pay are last respects to Damon Walker. He got angry and said it would be best if we just left the area and that he was not going to let this funeral turn in to a scene. I told the officer that what he was doing was depriving the immediate family form the grave side service and that it was bullshit for what he was doing. He told me that he could arrest me for cussing and I told him that it would not be for cussing if he arrested me! I have never seen officer’s act like this at a funeral when people are highly stressed and grieving. This officer was out of control and could have tuned a bad time for everyone involved into a tragedy.
Instead of telling us that they were there to keep the peace and that they would be off to the side to keep watch and to keep any thing from happening. They were rude and demanding they kept all of Damon’s blood family (besides his boy) from attending the grave side service. My wife was so embarrassed that she turned and shouted to the officer to move the vehicles so we could get are care back out. At this point the officer reached for his handcuffs acting like he was going to arrest her. My sister in law told him not to be an idiot. As we were leaving, my nephew James Sparks’ said some derogatory stupid things to this enraged officer and he pulled the car over telling him that he was going to arrest him also! And she went to the car with her Aunts and waited on me to get there. As we were leaving she told me to get there badge numbers and names so we could
report them. A very unfortunate incident that all of Damon’s living relative’s will have to remember for the rest of there lives.
I Don Cox swear by these statements and can be reached at xoxox
at any time.
