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Andrew Raymond Bouchard ("Andy")
- Dec. 19, 2020 -
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Resided: |
Katy TX, USA
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Born: | Jan. 16, 1969 |
Fallen: | Dec. 19, 2020 |
Race/Sex: | Caucasian Male / 51 yrs. of age |
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Dept: | U.S. Customs and Border Patrol - Office of Field Operations
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington D.C., DC
20229 USA (877)227-5511 |
County: | District of Columbia |
Dept. Type: | Federal/Law Enforcement |
Hero's Rank: | Officer |
Sworn Date: | Unk |
FBI Class: | Death - Biological |
Weapon Class: | COVID-19 |
Agency URL: | Click Here
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On The Job: |
13 years
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Duties: | assigned to Houston Seaport |
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Bio: Andrew Raymond 'Andy' Bouchard was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he lived until age 9 when his family moved to Houston, Texas. He grew up in the Alief area, where he attended Alief Elsik High School. He played football for a year and then became an athletic trainer through the remainder of his high school years. He graduated from Alief Elsik High School in 1987; and then, he enlisted the U.S. Army. Andy served in the Chemical Detection and Clean Up division, was deployed in Desert Storm in 1991 and rose to the rank of an E-4 Specialist. After serving three years, he then served two additional years in the U.S. Army Reserves.
On May 5, 1995, Andy married the love of his life, Kimberly Ann Nitkowski in the Grace Presbyterian Church, in Houston, Texas, and to this union two children were born Nathan and Sarah. They have raised their children in the Katy, Texas area, where they have lived for 23 years.
After his service in the U.S. Army, Andy landed a job with an audio and visual company working on hotel event planning and set up. It was the terror attack of 9/11 that inspired Andy to pursue a different career path. He was restless, sincerely hated working on the civilian side and felt compelled to help his country. In an overwhelming need to serve and protect, Andy went to work for the Transportation and Safety Administration (TSA) at George Bush Intercontinental Airport.
After five years working for TSA, Andy transferred to Customs and Border Protection, where he quickly developed a strong passion for his work. He has faithfully and honorably served with the Customs and Border Protection for nearly 20 years. During his career, Andy was assigned to the Outbound Team and Passenger Operations where he was instrumental in the port’s emergency preparedness program and assisting in maintaining all equipment and supplies for emergency deployment. He always volunteered to deploy during emergent situations.
Andy was also a member of the Emergency Management Team. He was in charge of setting up the Command Center and overseeing the deployment of personnel and equipment such as the necessary vehicles used and ensuring needed vehicle maintenance was performed timely. He knew this job inside and out. He knew exactly where the inventory and supplies were stored within shipping containers and what was inside each of those containers. He usually knew the quantities of inventory for each item they had on hand. Andy worked on the Natural Disaster Response Team during hurricane Ike in 2008 and through every other hurricane season since, including those of 2020 making landfall in Louisiana.
In every way of life, Andy was an amazing individual. He was a good man. He was a great husband and father. As a husband, he was loyal and very loving. He would always support Kimberly and push her to strive for anything she wanted to accomplish. He worked alongside her in her business venture and enjoyed every step of the way with her. As a father, he was always fair and tried to prepare his children for anything and everything. He taught them valuable lessons about life and was very involved in their lives. It was commonplace to find Andy sitting on the floor in the middle of a game or in a playhouse playing alongside with his kids and their friends. He truly cared for his family and always put them first.
Andy was a character. He liked to joke, have fun and make people laugh. Andy was known for sometimes being a 'personal space invader' and sneak attack people. He would be very quiet and all of sudden be right beside your face, just smiling. He had a very funny and good sense of humor. He enjoyed quoting movies, adding to his comic book collection, being a part of the U2 Fan Club, and watching Bob Ross painting videos. He was an incredibly talented trivia player and everyone wanted Andy on their team. Andy absolutely loved Star Trek, Star Wars and Marvel. He had a very joyous and fulfilled life. |
Fatal Incident Summary
Offender: |
No Info
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Houston,
TX
USA
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Summary: |
Officer Andy Bouchard died from complications as the result of contracting COVID-19 while on duty at the Houston Seaport.
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COVID-19, a flu-like virus, originated in Wuhan, China. Worth a mention, the Chinese Government had a biological research facility in that very province. At this point, it was widely held that COVID-19 was a bat-coronavirus and the first case was discovered in Wuhan in Oct. 2019.
On Dec. 31, 2019, Chinese authorities alerted the World Health Organization of pneumonia cases in Wuhan City, Hubei province, China, with an unknown cause. Jan 7, 2020 Chinese authorities identify a new type of coronavirus (called novel coronavirus or nCoV).
Despite deaths and an entire Chinese Province(Hubei) quarantined by the Chinese Government, the World Health Organization(WHO) simply declares a global public-health emergency. Despite this serious understatement, on January 31st, President Trump bans foreign nationals from entering the US if they were in China within the prior two weeks. Despite a large public outcry of racism, this move likely saved 1000's of American lives, it would later be deemed.
After a full blown global infection, and an entire country being declared on 'Lockdown'(Italy), on March 11th, WHO declared the outbreak a pandemic. This same day, President Trump bans all travel from 26 European countries. On Mar. 13th, a US national emergency is declared over the novel coronavirus outbreak.
On Mar. 23rd, New York City confirms 21,000 cases, making it the biggest epicenter of the outbreak in the US. On Mar. 31, more than 1/3 of humanity is under some form of lockdown. On Apr. 2nd, the world passes one million COVID-19 infections.
On April 7th, roughly 95% of all Americans are under lockdown, as 42 states issue stay-at-home orders. The entire American economy has ground to a halt. Congress passed laws awarding trillions in grants, loans and other types of assistance to the American working population and businesses.
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