From PrivateOfficerBreakingNews:
DETROIT MI -- A Detroit family is grieving after a hard-working military veteran was killed protecting a colleague.
Tate Sherrer, 49, pushed a fellow security officer out of harm's way before he was hit by an out-of-control driver.
Detroit police said that driver may have been drunk.
Sherrer's family members said he had just started working as a security guard at Caribbean bar a few months ago, and this was supposed to be his last week.
He served in Afghanistan, and ended up dying in Detroit while saving the life of his colleague.
"It’s an unbelievable thing, but when you think about it, you’re like, 'That’s him: risk his life to save someone else’s,'" Sherrer's stepdaughter, Mykera Walker, said.
Sherrer was a father, a military veteran and a romantic. He married Walker’s mother a month ago in a secret ceremony.
The couple planned to surprise their family on New Year's Eve.
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"I felt her happiness and her love, because you could see how in love she was and how happy she was," Walker said.
A wall in their home was a tribute to their love for one another and their family.
"It was actually one of his favorite things about this house," Walker said. "Here in the middle was the story about how he and my mom met."
Saturday night, Sherrer was working with another security officer outside a bar on Procter and McGraw on Detroit’s west side.
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A driver who may have been speeding jumped the curb, and Sherrer pushed his colleague to safety just in time.
