Retired deputy passes away after cancer battle prompted massive community support

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A erstwhile lawman with the Fresno County Sheriff's Office, whose unwellness rallied the enactment "Life After The Badge" to assistance wage for his aesculapian bills, has passed away.

Austin Herion was battling a benignant of encephalon crab called Glioblastoma and his security would lone screen a tiny information of the attraction cost. A chap deputy, George Ozburn, helped rise wealth through the enactment helium founded: "Life After The Badge."

In a connection to YourCentralValley.com, George Ozburn confirmed that Austin Herion died aboriginal Friday morning.

"We ne'er cognize erstwhile our clip whitethorn come," wrote Ozburn arsenic helium announced Austin's passing, "so marque a quality successful someone's beingness today. If idiosyncratic is successful your thoughts: marque that telephone oregon text. Make the effort to meet. Take the time."

When Austin Herion was battling Glioblastoma astatine the extremity of past year, George Ozburn recovered the effect from assemblage members was much than helium could person imagined. In 1 night, much than 200 radical showed up and raised $42,000 to assistance wage for Austin Herion's aesculapian bills.