9-Year-Old Terminally Ill Boy Fulfills Bucket List Wish, Becomes Honorary Fort Worth Police Officer

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) — A 9-year-old terminally ill boy became an honorary Fort Worth police officer Thursday morning.

In July 2018, Carter Escobar was diagnosed with stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a form of soft tissue cancer that occurs most often in the arms, legs, chest and abdomen. After a year and a half of chemotherapy, follow-up scans showed his cancer returned and that there were no longer any life-saving treatments available for him.

Escobar then created a bucket list, which included being a police officer for a day.

His list include the following:

• Visit Will (done)
• Meet Aquaman
• Meet Thor
• Go to California to visit family and friends (covered)
• Go to the beach (covered)
• Go hunting/shooting (covered)
• Go back to Lighthouse (covered)
• Get a dog 
• Be the Principal for a Day (done)
• Eat sushi (covered)
• Eat at Waffle House (done)
• Ride in a Ferrari (done)
• Go to Knott's Berry Farm (covered)
• Meet Taylor Swift
• Be in a Dude Perfect video or meet them (covered)
• Go to Splash Dayz (covered)
• Be a policeman for a day (done)
• Have a cool slumber party with friends (covered)
• Play laser tag (covered)
• Be a Brewer Bear basketball player (done)

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• Cancer
• Texas
• North Texas