SIMI VALLEY — Community members and police officers last month took a swing at raising cash for a fallen comrade, the result of which netted $30,000 for Santa Monica youth.
The Inaugural Ricardo Crocker Memorial Park Golf Tournament was held on May 10 at Wood Ranch Country Club. More than 100 golfers came out to honor Crocker, 39, a 10-year veteran of the Santa Monica Police Department and a major in the United States Marines Corps. He was killed on May 26, 2005, in a rocket-propelled grenade attack in Iraq.
Crocker’s funeral was held at St. Monica’s Church on June 2, 2005, before his body was taken to his native Puerto Rico for burial two days later.
His colleagues and friends set up the Rick Crocker Memorial Fund, which will benefit the Police Activities League, where Crocker was assigned and was viewed as an out-
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 3, 2006. Read the original PDF.