Heroic Outfitters
At about 1:25 a.m. on July 30, 2024, Deputy Sheriff Rafael Wordlaw was sitting in a car while a friend pumped gas. Then an armed robbery began. Wordlaw was off duty, but the badge had shaped the kind of person who could not simply watch someone else face danger alone. He intervened, and the violence that followed took his life at 31. Wordlaw served the Cook County Sheriff’s Office - Department of… Read more
When Rafael Wordlaw Stepped Forward, a Friend Came Home Wounded and a Jail Deputy Never Did
