TEAM BLUE LINE VISITS ST. MARKS

The non-profit supports law enforcement officers injured on the job

Sgt. Rob Holloway, kneeling, with kids of Wakulla County sheriff’s deputies  at the St. Marks Community Market.

By LEGION TAYLOR Reporter

A charity known as Team Blue Line set up a booth at the St. Marks Community market on Saturday, manned in part by Sgt. Rob Holloway, a policeman who was shot in the line of duty.
On April 12th, 2020, while pursuing suspects in a high-speed car chase near Carrollton, Ga., the suspects fired at Holloway’s car and he was struck in the head. After the incident, he was in the hospital for months, and due to Covid restrictions his wife couldn’t go to work and come back to see him, so she chose to stay by his side rather than working for those months.
The community gathered around them, however, with co-workers donating leave time so his wife wouldn’t be suffer unreasonably, and even the roofing company they had hired took it upon themselves to redo the roof the way they had been contracted to, entirely free of charge. When The holloways would have missed seeing their son graduate from highschool, the school allowed it to be livestreamed and let their son be the first to walk the stage, so they could watch it from the hospital room.
When Sgt. Holloway was informed he might never walk again, Team Blue Line dedicated their time and money into remodeling his bathroom to make it more easily accessible for him to use after getting home from the hospital.
Though Holloway has been steadily recovering and is fully capable of walking under his own power, he says that the handrails installed around his home thanks to Team Blue Line are very helpful whenever he feels weak or lightheaded.
When asked what Team Blue Line does, he said that they “Stand for something good, that protects the community from evil.”
While still small, quality of life improvements such as these can make large impacts on the lives of officers who were injured or disabled in the line of duty.
Team Blue Line also assists the families of those who gave their lives on the job, often paying tuition for their children to go to a private school and get a high-quality education.
The charity can be found at teamblueline.org for more information or if you’d like to donate.