When Georgia state trooper Nathan Bradley arrived to deliver the news that the couple had died in a car crash, he found their children dressed up and ready for trick-or-treating.
A state trooper from Georgia is being praised for going above and beyond on Saturday after he gave four children a memorable Halloween instead of informing them their parents had died in an accident.
Bradley said when he arrived, he and other officers found that two people had died.
The couple, D.J. and Crystal Howard, were parents of four children, Bradley told BuzzFeed News.
The parents had gone to the store to get more face makeup and candy for their children's Halloween costumes when they crashed.
Bradley wrote that he went to the couple's address along with the coroner and another trooper. When they knocked on the door to deliver the horrible news, he was greeted by four kids in Halloween costumes.
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However, the children's grandmother, Stephanie Oliver, lived in Florida. She told the troopers she would immediately jump in her car, but it would be a seven-hour drive.
Bradley wrote he felt sick at the thought of telling the children their parents had died, and then sending them to sit alone while they waited for their grandmother.
"It was dreadful," he told BuzzFeed News. "It's painful, one, to tell anyone that their loved one died, but to tell four children that both parents have died, plus it was Halloween..."
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