This is a little extra that I could find on Sr. Cpl. Ahrens.

Dallas police said Senior Cpl. Lorne Ahrens was a 14-year veteran of the department. He worked for a time in a unit serving warrants, Buckingham said, an assignment where danger can come with any door knock. Ahrens may have quelled a lot of potential resistance with his bulk, a shaved head and heavily tattooed arms. In one 2003 incident, according to court documents, Ahrens, with his lineman’s build, sprinted fast enough to tackle a suspected cocaine dealer running away from a bust. According to testimony, the suspect had dropped a .38 caliber pistol and an SKS assault rifle was found in the house. According to his father-in-law, the 6-foot-5, 300-pound former semi-pro football player could turn heads just by showing up.  According to Buckingham, Ahrens was already out of surgery when Katrina Ahrens got there. But then something went wrong.“They had to take him back in,” Buckingham said with an exhausted voice. “She said he didn’t make it.” Earlier, Ahrens had been an officer in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, according to a state database, policing in one of the country’s biggest metro areas from 1991 to 2002. It was home for him, according to Buckingham. Ahrens had grown up near Los Angeles and still has family in Simi Valley. He played a few years of semi-professional football in the state.The couple was married at a ceremony in Lake Tahoe shortly before they moved to her home region of Dallas, Buckingham said.Ahrens may have been big, but he had a soft touch with children, according to his father-in-law. He rolled on the floor with them gleefully and liked to take them fishing and to the movies. More than once, he went in uniform to his daughter’s school to talk about policing and safety.“He loved it here,” Buckingham said. “He found it just a slower, easier-going part of the world.” Lorne’s immediate family are his wife, Katrina  (a Dallas police detective ) and the couples’ children, a 10-year-old girl and 8-year-old boy, father-in-law, Charlie Buckingham, sister-in-law Erika Swyryn