Courtney Meeks had big dreams.
Meeks, 24, wanted to become a Detroit or Highland Park police officer, then an FBI agent. He had a reputation for helping others.
According to Elisha Anderson in the Free Press, that was how friends and family remembered Meeks Thursday after the security guard died Wednesday night at a CVS pharmacy on Detroit’s west side when a gunman opened fire after Meeks, who was wearing a bulletproof vest, intervened in an attempted carjacking.
A woman, who had driven to CVS, was coming out of the store and saw what was happening to her two passengers — a 6-year-old child and a woman. She ran back inside, screaming for help.
Meeks rushed to the aid of the victims and was fatally shot in the neck as the two suspects took off in a burgundy 2002 Ford Taurus from the store at 16800 Schaefer, near West McNichols, police said.
“He’s a hero,” Detroit Police Chief James Craig said during a news conference outside the store today. “It’s a tragic situation.”
Meeks’ father, McCoy Meeks, stood silently behind Craig as the chief spoke, adding a poignancy to the frigid scene.
