Boy Bereft After Bullies Smash His Guitar—Until NJ Police Officer Gifts His Own as Replacement

(Back, L–R) Officers Andrew Skae, Lt. Benjamin Veenema, Kevin Foley, and Marc Lecourieux with Evan.Courtesy of Hawthorne Police Department

After a 9-year-old boy and his parents appeared at their local police station to report that the boy’s guitar had been smashed by bullies, one officer went above and beyond—he gifted the devastated boy his very own guitar.

Patrol Officer Andrew Skae from Hawthorne, New Jersey, was on duty on Aug. 28 when his colleague Officer Marc Lecourieux met Evan and his parents in the lobby of the Hawthorne Police Department.