Dekalb Police Officer Earns Good Samaritan Badge

DeKALB – Officer Jeff Winters said he was running through the aisles of Walmart, refusing to let the subject get away. Just south on Sycamore Road, under a tree at Kishwaukee Country Club, was the guy the DeKalb police officer was running after: a homeless man who hadn’t eaten in a while, and who was desperate for respite June 13, which would be a sweltering day. Winters already had brought the man some breakfast sandwiches, danishes and bottles of water. “I figured that would help him out for a while, at least for the day, and it was getting hot out,” he said. A business had called that morning, concerned about a man sleeping under the tunnel near Bea’s Wok N Roll.