By Police1 Staff
EL CAJON, Calif. — Zachary Williams is hundreds of dollars away from memorializing his father with a one-of-a-kind K-9 training center for the California Highway Patrol.
In 2013, Zachary’s father, Officer Jonas Williams, began building the facility, KGTV reported. The work on the center was stopped after Jonas died from complications after hip surgery.
Zachary is continuing work on the center for his Eagle Scout project with the help of local businesses and his GoFundMe page.
“Everyone will know that it was me and my dad, that we’re finishing it,” Zachary told the station. “It’s good to know that I’m going to be finishing the project for him since he passed away in 2013, three days before my 11th birthday.”
Currently, CHP K-9s and handlers use training centers run by individual cities or the county, not one of their own.
Zachary hopes to break ground late October and have CHP K-9s using the training center by the end of November.