“He was just kind of bulletproof,” said Hanna Massong, officer Jackson's cousin. “We would throw all our problems onto him, and go to him for advice and go to him for support.”
VIDEO: Tributes continue to pour in for fallen officer Jordan JacksonBELLEVUE, Wash. — Tributes keep pouring in for the Bellevue police officer who died following a crash on Monday.In an exclusive interview with KIRO 7 News, Jackson’s cousin said he was that “go to” protector of the family for absolutely everything.
Yet in a week as sad as this one, Massong and her family are now getting support in Jackson’s memory.“He wasn’t scared of anything. He looked fear in the face and took it on,” Massong told KIRO 7.“It was determined that the Bellevue police motorcycle Officer Jordan Jackson was traveling northbound on Bellevue Way and a vehicle entered Bellevue Way SE from a parking lot on the east side of the road which the motorcycle officer struck,” WSP Trooper Rick Johnson said in a news release Monday night.
Before joining the Bellevue Police Department, Jackson was an EMT, volunteer firefighter and a member of the King County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue Volunteer K-9 Unit.
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