PatchCast: Fallen Officer Fund Benefits From 'Roof Raiser' Drive

Jim Surrett is sure of it: “There’s a lot worse places you can be today than” living on the roof of a car dealership, he said.

That would be Lokey Automotive, where Surrett, the dealership’s general manager, has been spending the month of April — 20 hours a day — aiming to bring awareness to his  monthlong campaign to raise money for the families of slain officers.

The Roof Raiser fundraiser is to benefit the families of fallen St. Petersburg Police officers Jeffrey Yaslowitz, David Crawford and Sgt. Tom Baitinger.

For more, view this video, by Aiyana Baida, editor of the Largo Patch, and click the link to the story written by Clearwater Patch Editor Jared Leone, “."