TAMKO Building Products is helping honor three Joplin, Mo. police officers and their families with a fundraiser that has collected nearly $200,000.
According to the Joplin Globe, TAMKO announced the fundraiser in March following the deaths of Cpl. Ben Cooper and Officer Jake Reed and injury of Officer Rick Hirshey of the Joplin Police Department. On March 8, the officers were shot in an exchange of gunfire with a Joplin man. Hirshey was released from the hospital on March 16.