Cop attends teen's graduation a week after telling of parents' death

 

ORANGE, Texas --

Lt. Eric Ellison said one of the hardest things he's ever had to do was to tell 18-year-old Kazzie Portie that both his parents had been killed by a drunk driver.

That's why Ellison showed up to support Portie at his graduation less than one week later.

"I walked up on the stage he looked at me and I looked at him and we both cried and that's OK," Lt. Ellison told 12News. "I told him 'you're going to walk and your folks are going to have a front row seat and I'm going to be there.'"