The wife of fallen DPD officer Loren Courts recalls his death two years later

(WXYZ) — Before Detroit Police Officer Loren Courts was shot and killed while on duty in 2022, he worked in the Second Precinct.

I met his widow two days after the tragedy, and she told me about the moments after his death.

Now, almost two years later, she talks to me again and tells me what her life is like without her husband.

Sadness and emptiness – this is how Kristine Courts says they fill the void left in her heart after the loss of her husband.

“He just left. He’s just gone,” Kristine said.

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Loren ended his watch on July 6, 2022. Courts died after responding to a shots fired call.

According to Kristine, it was a day that changed her forever.

“I remember getting in the car in the passenger seat and my mom was driving. And I remember looking and everyone just going about their business and everything seemed so peaceful that I thought, ‘don’t they know. Don’t they know what we just lost,'” she said.

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She remembers how she felt when they made their last call.

“I felt like I was literally going to faint,” she said.

Loren’s untimely death affected not only Kristine, but also their two children, Darian and Devyn.

“I think it was a little harder for her. You know kids these days can be cruel… they’ll say things like that or send her pictures and say that’s why you don’t have a father,” Kristine said.

Devyn said she misses everything about her father.

As for Loren and Kristine’s eldest son, Darian, he has just graduated from high school.

“As soon as Darian walked in, it was like he had a pin with his dad on it… it was like a flood of emotions because Loren and I were always talking about Darian’s graduation because it was getting closer.”

Kristine told me she never talked to Loren about the possibility of him not coming home after his shift, but a year before he died, he got a tattoo announcing he would come home every day.

Now the silence that has followed Loren’s departure has left Kristine and her children in eternal pain and sorrow.

“It’s not true, yes, it won’t get better. It’s unfair,” she said.