FLORENCE COUNTY, SC (WBTW) – A Lake City boy honored Florence County investigator, Farrah Turner, with his Halloween costume this year.
Five-year-old Collin Parker told News13 he wants to be a police officer when he gets older.
“I like being a cop,” he said. “I want to catch all the bad guys.”
Parker’s mother, Samantha Floyd, said she had decals of Turner’s badge in the back of her car from the day of the funeral.
“I forgot they were back there,” she said. “We had the windows down and one actually flew around my car which was weird, and Collin found it,” she continued. “He started asking why there were angel wings on it, so I kind of explained it but it’s hard to explain to a five-year-old what really happened.”
Floyd said her son asked if he could wear Turner’s badge on his hat before he went out trick-or-treating for the night, and she told him yes.
“I started talking about Farrah, and how she was shot by a bad guy, and he said he wanted to be strong and brave like Farrah so he asked if he could put it on his hat,” Floyd said.
Floyd said it was difficult to talk to her son about Turner.
“It was heartbreaking at first to explain bad because, you know, as parents we want them to always believe that everybody’s good,” she explained. “But in all reality they’re not so for him to see that he wants to be that good person, and he wants to take down the bad people, it really melted my heart.”
Floyd said her son kept talking about how he wanted to be like Investigator Turner.
“I want to be brave like Farrah,” Parker told News13. “Because she died because she was brave to get the bad guys.”
