Support of Deputy Jeremy Chapman
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My name is Tim Nichols, I am the Criminal Investigator at the Drew County Sheriff's Office. I would like to say that I would have never figured I would be setting up a Go Fund Me Account but I have a friend who needs some help making it through life right now. I just hope that you will take the time and read his story and find some way to help this man and his family.
On the date of March 27, 2013 Deputy Jeremy Chapman got ready for work just like any other day before and proceeded to check 10-8 for work. When he started his shift he knew just like all of us in Law Enforcement that there are no routine shifts, traffic stops or calls and that our lives can change in a blink of an eye. But it did not phase Deputy Chapman, he came out anyway to do a job in which he swore to do.
What he didn't know is that this day was going to be one of those life changing days. This was the day his training, faith and determination was going to be tested. This was the day in which he was shot twice in the chest / shoulder area by a man he had never met while on what he thought to be a simple traffic stop. Deputy Chapman was transported to Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Pine Bluff where he remained for a period of time before being discharged.
Deputy Chapman suffered pain and questioned why this happened but he was unable to stay at home due to his love for this job so he came to work on light duty. In order for him to make a full return into Law Enforcement Chapman had to undergo a series of test by his doctor for the gunshot wounds in which he suffered and also a mental evaluation.
Deputy Chapman was cleared to return to work and although many would have gave up he didn't. He proceeded to come to work and faced many challenges along the way. Challenges in which he had never faced before but he continued to fight those challenges. He faught them until the point in which he decided that he needed a break from Law Enforcement. So in the early part of 2015 he left the Drew County Sheriff's Office and began doing some construction work but it wasn't the same.
So he applied at the Warren Police Department and was hired as a Patrolman. Chapman worked until he noticed that the challenges were only getting worse so he consulted with one of his superiors and was set up for another mental evaluation. The results of that evaluation was not what he wanted to hear.
Chapman was diagnosed with P.T.S.D. and severe depression due to him being shot in 2013 and was recommended for extensive counseling / theropy and immediate disability. Based on that diagnosis he was relieved of his duties as an Arkansas Law Enforcement Officer.
He began to explore his options and was informed that his workman's compensation had expired in reference to the 2013 incident and that any and all cost for counseling or any other services to possibly help him would be completly his responsibility.
Chapman then began to gather information about disability services and completed all of the proper paperwork and submitted it back to be processed. After doing so he was informed that he was not eligible for unemployment and that his disablility would not be approved for in no less than 6 months.
Jeremy has to support not only himself but he also has to help support his two children. He is currently faced with having to move out of state with family in order to help continue to support his kids who will remain here in Arkansas. This is not something any of us as parents would want to do and I know he doesn't.
Any money donated will go towards helping Jeremy provide for his children, pay bills and seek the help in which he needs to stay strong for not only himself but for his kids.
This is an idea that I put together to try and help him and for no other reason. It isn't something he asked for but it is the way in which I feel we could help a person who has been impacted by something beyond his control. Because I can promise you this guy don't want any of this stuff.
So if you can donate please do but if you can't please keep them in your thoughts and prayers for through God all things are possible.
Thank you,
Tim Nichols
On the date of March 27, 2013 Deputy Jeremy Chapman got ready for work just like any other day before and proceeded to check 10-8 for work. When he started his shift he knew just like all of us in Law Enforcement that there are no routine shifts, traffic stops or calls and that our lives can change in a blink of an eye. But it did not phase Deputy Chapman, he came out anyway to do a job in which he swore to do.
What he didn't know is that this day was going to be one of those life changing days. This was the day his training, faith and determination was going to be tested. This was the day in which he was shot twice in the chest / shoulder area by a man he had never met while on what he thought to be a simple traffic stop. Deputy Chapman was transported to Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Pine Bluff where he remained for a period of time before being discharged.
Deputy Chapman suffered pain and questioned why this happened but he was unable to stay at home due to his love for this job so he came to work on light duty. In order for him to make a full return into Law Enforcement Chapman had to undergo a series of test by his doctor for the gunshot wounds in which he suffered and also a mental evaluation.
Deputy Chapman was cleared to return to work and although many would have gave up he didn't. He proceeded to come to work and faced many challenges along the way. Challenges in which he had never faced before but he continued to fight those challenges. He faught them until the point in which he decided that he needed a break from Law Enforcement. So in the early part of 2015 he left the Drew County Sheriff's Office and began doing some construction work but it wasn't the same.
So he applied at the Warren Police Department and was hired as a Patrolman. Chapman worked until he noticed that the challenges were only getting worse so he consulted with one of his superiors and was set up for another mental evaluation. The results of that evaluation was not what he wanted to hear.
Chapman was diagnosed with P.T.S.D. and severe depression due to him being shot in 2013 and was recommended for extensive counseling / theropy and immediate disability. Based on that diagnosis he was relieved of his duties as an Arkansas Law Enforcement Officer.
He began to explore his options and was informed that his workman's compensation had expired in reference to the 2013 incident and that any and all cost for counseling or any other services to possibly help him would be completly his responsibility.
Chapman then began to gather information about disability services and completed all of the proper paperwork and submitted it back to be processed. After doing so he was informed that he was not eligible for unemployment and that his disablility would not be approved for in no less than 6 months.
Jeremy has to support not only himself but he also has to help support his two children. He is currently faced with having to move out of state with family in order to help continue to support his kids who will remain here in Arkansas. This is not something any of us as parents would want to do and I know he doesn't.
Any money donated will go towards helping Jeremy provide for his children, pay bills and seek the help in which he needs to stay strong for not only himself but for his kids.
This is an idea that I put together to try and help him and for no other reason. It isn't something he asked for but it is the way in which I feel we could help a person who has been impacted by something beyond his control. Because I can promise you this guy don't want any of this stuff.
So if you can donate please do but if you can't please keep them in your thoughts and prayers for through God all things are possible.
Thank you,
Tim Nichols
Organizer and beneficiary
Tim Nichols
Organizer
Monticello, AR
Jeremy Chapman
Beneficiary