Photo: Hatboro County Police Department
Ryan Allen, a Pennsylvania police officer who suffered a rare reaction to a bee sting last year, has died, the Hatboro Police Department announced on Thursday. He was 35.
“I will miss you until the end of my days, my sweet boy,” his wife, Whitney Allen, wrote onFacebook. “Thank you for the most magical and happiest 10 years of my life.”
“Thank you for our two beautiful boys,” she added. “I will raise them to be men that you would be proud of. Please watch over us and send us signs that you’re here with us. Until we meet again boo. I love you.”
Allen, who joined the Hatboro force in 2013, was a member of the Montgomery County Drug Task Force and a canine handler who helped found the department’s canine unit.
The news comes several months after a bee sting led to a brain injury and coma — a “horrific journey” Whitney has been candid about with supporters on aGoFundMepage.
After the sting in October 2021, doctors initially believed Allen would recover and return home — albeit with a need for 24-hour nursing care and a long recovery, according to the GoFundMe page.
However, doctors told the Allen family that he would not recover last month, Whitney explained in a March 8 update to her GoFundMe page.
“As his family and the people that know and love him the most, we know from the bottom of our hearts that Ryan would not want to live in the current state he is in,” she added. “We want to do what is best for Ryan and that is to give him his freedom and peace after so much trauma and pain.”
The tragedy has been met with an outpouring of support from the Hatboro community, garnering more than $139,000 to date to help cover Allen’s medical expenses.
“The support for Officer Allen, his family and our police department in the months since that October day has been overwhelming,” Gardner wrote in his post.
source: people.com
