Tragedy strikes with a murder-suicide, melting glaciers, and negative campaign ads.

When we read about tragic murders, suicide, death, it's usually very distant, but not today.

The former retired deputy chief slain with her daughter in a murder-suicide, let me tell you something, it's hitting every single one of us.

I was particularly affected when I heard the story told by my dear friend Richard Correa.

I've known Richard Correa for years, a proud graduate of George Washington High School, former head of the Richmond Station here in San Francisco.

Richard Correa was an SFPD officer, and he had a chat with his sister, Ann, and this is how he described it.

We were talking about what it was like to be a manager of Toys R Us.

And I told her what it was like to be a cop.

She

joined a year later.

And according to Richard Correa, she loved

the job.

She was good at it.

And as the Chronicle reports, she became part of a new crop of female police officers joining the force only years after the SFPD began hiring women to patrol the streets.

By the time she retired in 2021, she was a highly respected deputy chief.

We know that she was killed by her husband and the other victim,

their daughter.

I must tell you, the daughter, only 24 years old, Catherine Mannix.

This is astounding.

And if you detect my voice slightly choked, it is because I feel, as all of us in San Francisco feel, the tragedy.

My dear friends, I want you to know that because I know Richard Correa, So well.

This hit me particularly hard.

But I want you to understand, we should be hit hard every time this happens.

And we should not be afraid to reveal the emotion.

Former San Francisco Deputy Police Chief Ann Maddox was a remarkable individual.

her brother Richard, well, what can I say? I send you more sympathy and love than I can ever express.

When we read about tragic murders, suicide, death, it's usually very distant, but not today.

The former retired deputy chief slain with her daughter in a murder-suicide, let me tell you something, it's hitting every single one of us.

I was particularly affected when I heard the story told by my dear friend Richard Correa.

I've known Richard Correa for years, a proud graduate of George Washington High School, former head of the Richmond Station here in San Francisco.

Richard Correa was an SFPD officer, and he had a chat with his sister, Ann, and this is how he described it.

We were talking about what it was like to be a manager of Toys R Us.

And I told her what it was like to be a cop.

She

joined a year later.

And according to Richard Correa, she loved

the job.

She was good at it.

And as the Chronicle reports, she became part of a new crop of female police officers joining the force only years after the SFPD began hiring women to patrol the streets.

By the time she retired in 2021, she was a highly respected deputy chief.

We know that she was killed by her husband and the other victim,

their daughter.

I must tell you, the daughter, only 24 years old, Catherine Mannix.

This is astounding.

And if you detect my voice slightly choked, it is because I feel, as all of us in San Francisco feel, the tragedy.

My dear friends, I want you to know that because I know Richard Correa, So well.

This hit me particularly hard.

But I want you to understand, we should be hit hard every time this happens.

And we should not be afraid to reveal the emotion.

Former San Francisco Deputy Police Chief Ann Maddox was a remarkable individual.

her brother Richard, well, what can I say? I send you more sympathy and love than I can ever express.