--- title: Dallas Shooting: Patrick Zamarippa Was Veteran and Father description: Officer Zamarripa and four other cops were shot and killed in Dallas by a sniper targeting officers. canonical: https://time.com/4398288/dallas-shooting-officer-patrick-zamarripa/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-08T17:49:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-06T09:40:23.480Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Sister Remembers Dallas Officer Killed by Sniper: 'He Took Care of Me' og:description: Officer Patrick Zamarripa was devoted to his siblings and his young daughter og:url: https://time.com/4398288/dallas-shooting-officer-patrick-zamarripa/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5d9a9e2c18eb8796/69889b480a4a22a1b49ca658/patrick-zamarripa.jpg?branch=production&width=950&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 950 og:image:height: 534 og:image:alt: Patrick Zamarripa is pictured in this undated family handout photo og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sister Remembers Dallas Officer Killed by Sniper: 'He Took Care of Me' twitter:description: Officer Patrick Zamarripa was devoted to his siblings and his young daughter twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5d9a9e2c18eb8796/69889b480a4a22a1b49ca658/patrick-zamarripa.jpg?branch=production&width=950&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Sister Remembers Dallas Officer Killed by Sniper: 'He Took Care of Me' > Sponsored content. 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Last week, Officer Patrick Zamarripa was researching Disney Cruises to plan a family vacation for his girlfriend, his 8-year-old stepson, and his 2-year-old daughter._  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Jul 8, 2016 5:49 PM UTC  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Jul 8, 2016 5:49 PM UTC Last week, Officer Patrick Zamarripa was researching Disney Cruises to plan a family vacation for his girlfriend, his 8-year-old stepson, and his 2-year-old daughter. But dreams of Disney were [cut short Thursday night](http://time.com/4397785/dallas-shooting-police-protest-snipers/), when Zamarripa and four other cops were [shot and killed](http://time.com/4397906/president-barack-obama-sniper-dallas-shootings/) by a [sniper targeting officers](http://time.com/4398101/dallas-police-shooting-suspects) at a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest. Instead of making plans for the future, Zamarripa’s family is now mourning the 32-year-old Navy veteran, who had always dreamed of becoming a police officer so he could help keep people safe. His protectiveness even extended to his older sister Laura Zamarripa, 34, who remembers him having her back even when they were kids. “He was my bug killer,” she recalled Friday as the family gathered to grieve together in Texas. “Even thought I was the big sister and I was strong and stuff, I could never kill bugs. He would get up in the middle of the night.” “He took care of me,” she added. Later, Zamarripa served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and even as he was facing dangerous situations in the military, he always checked up on his sister, who was also enlisted. “I was on a ship, and my brother was stationed on an oil rig, and I would get letters from him weeks later delivered via helicopter,” she remembered. “He was keeping up with the status of my ship and asking questions, even though he was my little brother.” Two years ago, Officer Zamarripa’s entire world changed with the birth of his daughter, Lyncoln. She made him a “happy spirit,” Laura said. “He just had a constant smile on his face after he became a father.” He was a “super proactive” dad who took his baby daughter to the gym with him and was an expert diaper changer, she added. “I think he finally found someone to play with,” Laura added of the birth of her niece. “He filled some part of his heart that was obviously empty.” The world Zamarripa had hoped to build for his daughter was “nothing like last night,” Laura said the morning after the shooting. The only part of his job he disliked was witnessing violence against children. “He would say ‘this is the only thing I don’t like about my job, is that I have to see children who are helpless get mistreated,'” she said. At the end of each year Zamarripa and his two siblings always discussed their wish for the year ahead, Laura recalled: “We have this thing between the three of us, and we’d say ‘what do you want for Christmas?'” she said. “And we’d always say ‘world peace and happiness.” ## Transcript Patrick was, yes he was a police officer, yes he was a sailor, but he was an everyday Joe, he had a stepson Dylan who is eight and my niece Lincoln. Who is two and a half. Patrick always wanted to be a police officer, so he was basically living the dream because he loved his job. That's what he wanted to be when he grew up, and he was still at the same time able to serve his country, which he [ INAUDIBLE ] We grew up in the south part of Fort Worth. My brother loves baseball and softball the trumpet also. He was quite the musician, he could read music really well. Patrick could pick up any instrument and make music with it. After settling with it for just a few minutes. He was just a joker, he loved to joke around. Uh- huh. Real chill down to earth type of guy. The only time Patrick really talked about work is if something happened that he witnessed had to do with children. My brother loved children, and if anything something happened on the job that had to do with children, he would get really heartfelt and touched. And he would say, Beth, this is the only thing I don't like about my job. sometimes I have to see children who are helpless get mistreated. Shipped to Afghanistan. And he said that was the only time he was really scared was when he had to cross into Iraq. He said he had some weird gut feelings. Honestly, he was trying to transfer out of Dallas. He wanted to come to Fort Worth to be closer to home, but that obviously didn't happen, and so he was just Happy with where he was at. Patrick was never scared of anything. The only time I heard him say he was scared was in 2002, he was early in the military and he got, we would just give him quick phone calls and texts before he [ UNKNOWN ]. And then yesterday, he Let us know you are alright, be careful, we love you and he love to travel. [ LAUGH ] That's not something we, I mean we did it growing up but it was just I mean to go visit family members. It was nothing exotic like a Disney Cruise. Right. Just keep begging of like corny stuff, you know like he was my bug killer eventhough I was the big sister and I was strong at everything else. I could never kill bugs. I always knew I could rely on him no matter what. Even to this day, I could just call my brother out of nowhere and he would show up. Patrick would take care of his daughter and you would see him at the gym with his daughter. He would take his daughter to the gym with him. I mean, He was like a super proactive Dad. I mean, I hae three kids and I have took care of them kids every dirty [ UNKNOWN ] by myself, but Patrick, damn, he's like a pro, he was a pro diaper changer and he's was the first one that heard her first word. Wow. You know, I know everybody says this about their loved one, their one of a kind. But he definitely was. 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