'I had made my peace with God in the ER': How a mass shooting has changed this police officer's life
AURORA, Ill. - The extraordinary day that forever changed the lives of Aurora Police Officer Marco Gomez and wife Carly started out pretty darn ordinary.
Only, not really. Not if you take into account the little things, the weird things, that could be considered premonitions of a nightmare about to unfold Feb. 15 at the Henry Pratt Co. in Aurora.
For one thing, on the advice of a jeweler, when she and Marco went to work out together that Friday morning in February at the local CrossFit, Carly Gomez did not wear her wedding ring â a rarity in the eight years since the couple was married.
As a police officer's wife, she always made it a point of saying "I love you ... be safe," after kissing Marco good-bye before he headed to work. But the early hours of Feb. 15 was just one of those extra rushed moments in a young family's life: She had to get groceries before the kids got home after a half day of school and he'd decided to go in earlier to a meeting with Paramount Theatre management to review details of an upcoming active shooter training with employees.
Something else was just not right that day. The popular Community Oriented Policing officer, who would turn 40 in a few weeks, has experienced a couple of other days in his career "that didn't feel quite right," but nothing even
