KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Brelande Edmond was looking for a way to serve his community and decided that joining the Kansas City Police Department would be the way to fulfill his desire, his mother said.
“He felt that was his way of giving, helping and giving back to the community,” Kayla Edmond of St. Louis said Tuesday. “He just thought it would be a way to maybe make a difference.”
Her son, however, died at a hospital July 3 after taking the physical agility test at the Regional Police Academy. The hospital ruled his death the result of heatstroke and liver shock, said Edmond.
