WASHINGTON — Mourners gathered in Brandywine, Maryland, to remember a Prince George’s County police officer who died helping a neighbor.
Supporters lit candles and released white balloons Wednesday at the Chadds Ford Community Center to honor Mujahid Ramzziddin. His wife, Tammi, told the crowd that she was “beyond heartbroken,” and she cries for all the lost dreams of growing old together with her husband.
“I lost my love. I lost my everything. My heart is shattered into millions of pieces,” Tammi said.
Those who knew him say that Ramzziddin was a “family person, a people person, a man with the biggest heart,” and that he was “always cheerful, always kind, always giving.”
“It matters that he stood his ground and defended his neighbor,” Prince George’s County police Chief Hank Stawinski told the crowd.
The 51-year-old police officer was shot five times with a shotgun by Glenn Tyndell, 37, on Feb. 21, while he was off duty and intervening in a domestic dispute between Tyndell and his wife in Brandywine.
Tyndell, who fled with Ramzziddin’s service pistol, led police on a chase through Prince George’s and Charles counties. He was holding Ramzziddin’s gun and fired two shots at two other officers, when he was shot and killed on MD-210.
Ramzziddin was posthumously promoted from corporal to sergeant.
![Mourners light candles during a vigil for Prince George's County police officer Mujahid Ramzziddin, who was killed last week. (WTOP/Dick Uliano)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ramzziddin_vigil_5-1672x1254.jpg)
![Mourners release white balloons during a vigil Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018, for Prince George's County police officer Mujahid Ramzziddin, who was killed while helping a neighbor. (WTOP/Dick Uliano)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ramzziddin_vigil_4.jpg)
![A Prince George's County police officer attends the vigil for slain colleague Mujahid Ramzziddin on Wedensday, Feb. 28, 2018. (WTOP/Dick Uliano)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ramzziddin_vigil_3-941x1254.jpg)
![A vigil is held for Prince George's County police officer Mujahid Ramzziddin, who was killed on Feb. 21, 2018. (WTOP/Dick Uliano)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ramzziddin_vigil_2-941x1254.jpg)
![Ron Brown and his wife Wendy attend the vigil of slain Prince George's County police officer Mujahid Ramzziddin. Brown is the uncle of Ramzziddin's wife, Tammi (WTOP/Dick Uliano)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ramzziddin_vigil_1-941x1254.jpg)
![Mourners light candles during a vigil for Prince George's County police officer Mujahid Ramzziddin, who was killed last week. (WTOP/Dick Uliano)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ramzziddin_vigil_5-260x174.jpg)
![Mourners release white balloons during a vigil Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018, for Prince George's County police officer Mujahid Ramzziddin, who was killed while helping a neighbor. (WTOP/Dick Uliano)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ramzziddin_vigil_4-260x174.jpg)
![A Prince George's County police officer attends the vigil for slain colleague Mujahid Ramzziddin on Wedensday, Feb. 28, 2018. (WTOP/Dick Uliano)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ramzziddin_vigil_3-260x174.jpg)
![A vigil is held for Prince George's County police officer Mujahid Ramzziddin, who was killed on Feb. 21, 2018. (WTOP/Dick Uliano)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ramzziddin_vigil_2-260x174.jpg)
![Ron Brown and his wife Wendy attend the vigil of slain Prince George's County police officer Mujahid Ramzziddin. Brown is the uncle of Ramzziddin's wife, Tammi (WTOP/Dick Uliano)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ramzziddin_vigil_1-260x174.jpg)
WTOP’s Dick Uliano contributed to this report.