Family of retired officer shot during shootout marathon bombing suspects shares video thanking frontline workers

BOSTON — Retired Transit Police Officer Dic Donohue almost lost his life during the manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombers. On One Boston Day, he normally shares his story of survival.

Instead, this year, he’s home with his family.

However, his wife, Kim Donohue, posted a touching and timely tribute video.

She told Boston 25 News, “We just need to honor the people that are still out there today and still saving lives today and the best way we could do that was to just to show that they did it in 2013, and they are out there doing it now."

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Dic Donohue said the family is "just trying to stay connected and relay the thanks that we still have and continue to have for the folks that were involved in the marathon response, saving my life and recovery thereafter."

"A lot of those people are out there right now putting their health on the line and making sacrifices," he added.

Dic Donohue was shot during a shootout with the bombers in Watertown. He nearly bled to death but was saved by first responders on scene as well of 40 units of donated blood at the hospital.

One of the woman who was working hard during the marathon bombing response then and on the front lines of this pandemic is Dic’s mother.

Kim Donohue explained, “She is a nurse manager over at Tufts for about 40 years now and she was there during the Boston Marathon bombing and she is there during the pandemic and she is a tough cookie, I will tell you that.”

Dic Donohue praised healthcare workers then, and now.

“It really is a surreal year, but we know that there are folks that are making those sacrifices so that people like my family can stay home and be safe and get what we need,” he said. “Just like seven years ago when we got through a situation that was pretty perilous, we will overcome."

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