CENTER CITY - As Sgt. Chris Fitzgerald was laid to rest Friday, so many people from so many places came to pay their respects, there wasn’t enough room inside the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul for everyone.
So much sadness enveloped the Parkway for a man described as caring, kind and compassionate."He has always been an openhearted, wonderful, loving child, teenager, man, father, nephew," Sgt.
Fitzgerald’s aunt, Diane Clark, said.Seeing Sergeant Fitzgerald’s family arrive for his funeral brought tears to people who never even met him.
Like many area residents, Kathleen Serano says she felt sick about what happened to the Temple University police officer and just had to pay her respects."My heart is broken for all our policemen and that family…the children, his mother and father, his wife.