Owners of the Posen Gas and Food Mart and members of the Posen police force stand together Friday at the gas station on Western Avenue at 140th Place in Posen. Business owners and village officials are teaming up for a fundraiser to benefit a police officer who was injured in a car crash. Posen police Cpl. Antwyan Murray can’t wait to get back to work, and he’s doing everything he can to get back in uniform. But it might be a while.
Murray has his goals, and the police department, mayor’s office and World Fuel Services in conjunction with Posen Gas & Food Mart have set some goals as well.has been set up, and the Patel family that operates the Posen Gas & Food station plans on donating a big chunk of that total. “The first responders have always been there for us and we’ve been here many, many years,” Love Patel said. “I think it’s just the correct thing to do.”
“We know how important it is to support our local law enforcement,” Vohra said. “We received a lot of support in our time of need and now we want to support this officer in his time of need.”“This is so honorable,” he said. “You usually don’t see a business step up like this.” But no one is asking him to rush back. Alexander said Murray will have to be 100% before he returns. Podbielniak is guessing that Murray could be back in July.