Burke High - Student Program
Officer TYE Pratt's Memorial Game

WEDNESDAY, October 29, 2003 burke beat NEWS
Laura Keller
staff reporter
On Sept. 23, anyone from outside of Nebraska would have thought the world had stopped to watch a 25-mile procession of vehicles slowly roll down Farnam Street. The world had stopped; it stopped to honor and remember fallen Police Sgt. Jason Tye Pratt.While making a routine traffic stop on Sept. 11, 30-year-old Pratt pulled over a man for speeding.The man escaped from the car, and while hiding in a bush, shot Officer Pratt. Pratt was hospitalized for nine days until he died Sept. 19.
On the day of his funeral, Sept. 23, tens of thousands of people turned out to honor Pratt. Only four Omaha police officers have died while on duty since 1970. It is an unnerving thing for other officers, however, because the events that lead to the shooting were routine.
The community has done much to support Pratt’s wife and two young daughters, including silent auctions, a raffle and show by the Young Americans. The police in Omaha are putting Pratt’s name on the monument of fallen officers in front of the police station.Burke High School has a deeper connection to Pratt. During his senior year in high school, Officer Pratt, a ‘92 graduate, played on the Varsity football team. Before the Sept. 19 football game against Lincoln Northstar, his jersey, number 33, was carried across the field by three fellow officers and retired.

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