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DALLAS - A Dallas Police officer is getting a new chance at a full life thanks to the generosity of a Marine and a family that has lost a husband and father.
Marine Sgt. Payton McCarty was riding his motorcycle home to Waxahachie late one night just over two weeks ago when he lost control and crashed.
"He was gone and they resuscitated him," said Josh Forner, McCarty's brother-in-law. "That gave [the family] three or four days of closure, and that allowed time so he could be a donor."
Forner, a Dallas Police Officer, had just heard a few days before that one of his brothers in blue was in need of a kidney transplant. Officer Bryson Brown was diagnosed with kidney disease due to hypertension and has been searching for a transplant for 15 months. He had recently shared his story with his fellow officers after trying and failing to find a match multiple times. Continue reading
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