Do It For Diller

Hi, my name is Chris Wade. I am born and raised on Long Island, NY. Long Island is a special community, a tight knit people. There are usually only a few degrees of separation at most between people who seem to be complete strangers here. As we all know Officer Jonathan Diller of Massapequa Park, NY was shot and lost his life while on duty responding to a call in Far Rockaway, Queens in a senseless act of violence by a man with 21 prior arrests for various charges. Officer Diller is survived by his wife Stephanie and his 1 year old little boy. My teammate and I had decided we were going to run 100 miles in the month of April prior to this tragic incident. My goal for the challenge has changed since being moved by this tragedy to encourage more people to join in the challenge of running the 100 miles and tying it to an amazing cause of giving his family what we can raise during the course of our efforts. Long Islanders take care of their own and my hope is that we can help raise awareness to New York City’s disgusting catch and release policies for these violent, mentally ill individuals that do harm to our officers and our citizens. If you decide to run a small donation and sharing this page would be greatly appreciated to do what we can for that little boy who has to now grow up without his dad because of a thug who shouldn’t have been out on the streets at all in a sensible world. Every penny that is raised will go to his family.