Team Gaines: Showing support for Rockwall police officer battling COVID-19

ROCKWALL, TX – July 23, 2020 – Friends of Rockwall Police Officer Tracy Gaines are encouraging community members to show their support by using the above graphic as their profile photo on social media.

Officer Gaines, father of two, remains in the ICU at a local hospital, battling COVID-19. He has been with the Rockwall Police Department for 15 years, and serves as a school resource officer at Rockwall High School. He is also a 20-year Air Force veteran.

“We want to show him and his family that we support them! Let him see the love we have for him and his family,” a family friend told Blue Ribbon News.

The Rockwall Police Officers Association reported on Facebook that “every day has been touch and go and we are thankful for this community and the heartfelt prayers for him and his family.”

Those who would like to donate to the family and the growing medical bills, can do so through the Assist the Officer Foundation >> www.atodallas.org. Choose the amount to donate and click “In Honor Of” and write “Officer Tracy Gaines.”

Team Gaines T-shirts are also being sold here.

Blue Ribbon News staff report.

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