Officer Brad Garafola’s wife arrived to pick him up from work. He would never make it home.

Officer Brad Garafola was just ending a shift at the B-Quik convenience store Sunday morning when his wife arrived to pick him up. But when she pulled up to the store, she couldn’t get to its entrance. There were police cars everywhere.

Soon she would find out that a man armed with a rifle shot and killed three Baton Rouge Police Officers. One of them was her husband.

Garafola had worked for the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office for 24 years. He was 45 years old.

“Everybody on this street depended on him,” his wife Tonja Garafola, told The Advocate.

Garafola was the father of four children, aged 7 to 21.