Evans bought one expansion pack after another. Their favorite was Zombicide, where players try to survive the apocalypse and kill zombies. When Evans got excited about strategic tabletop board games - the kind that take hours to play - his family became invested in them too. “Some people would say he’s a big child.”
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“If you looked at his apartment, it was all movie posters, beautifully framed, but movie posters, and figurines from ‘Star Wars,’ and board games,” said Kucyn. But when he wasn’t working, he could usually be found playing. Evans spent his days on his feet, in the elements, and often returned home bone-tired from a long shift. “He was a positive part of a lot of people’s days,” said King. Others just passed by, his face etched into their memories, even if they didn’t know his name until he was gone, said King. ‘Why are you here so late, why are you coming in so early, don’t you have family, don’t you have somewhere to go?’ Giving us trouble.” “Which is what I think he always really enjoyed doing to me and some of us he sees all the time. or he’d give you some sort of grief,” she told the network in April. Some frequent visitors, like CNN producer Kristin Wilson, became familiar with him. He was the funny guy who’d be giving them a hard time.” “He was a guy in uniform who projected his personality still,” said Kucyn. Instead, he spent his days outside, where he bantered with a constant stream of tourists, officials and reporters. It meant he didn’t have to deal with the rigmarole of foreign dignitaries and politics. That was where he was happiest on the job, his family says. Eventually, he settled into a post at the North Barricade. Once in Washington, Evans worked in a few different positions both inside and outside the Capitol. “It was a good opportunity, and it worked out.” The North Barricade “I didn’t have to talk him into it,” said King. That was where King ran into him again and told Evans about his job as a Capitol Police officer. Both played the trumpet.Īfter studying criminal justice at Western New England University, Evans got a job in loss prevention at the Big Y back home, where he “watched for shoplifters for eight hours a day,” his mom said. The two had met when they were little kids, King says, in a youth bowling league, and they also played baseball together in Little League. He fell into a group of kids - most of whom turned out to be a head taller than him - and they stayed close for the rest of his life.Īs a student at Drury High School in North Adams, he was joined at the hip with King, who was one year ahead of him. When his family moved to Clarksburg, it didn’t take Evans long to make new friends. “He and his friends were always trying to get our attention, or, you know, play pranks on us,” she said. Kucyn remembers her brother being a “little pest,” endearingly vexing, with thick glasses perched on his nose. “I didn’t know any of this until years later, when I happened to run into the child’s mother, and she told me how wonderful Billy was to her son.” “In second grade, there was one child he went to school with that had some physical issues, and Billy stepped up and took them under his wing,” said Janice Evans. “‘Billy, did you bring your alarm clock?’”ĭespite the hijinks, he was drawn to helping others. “His teacher got to the point where, just about every day, she’d have to check with him,” Janice Evans said. As a child, he could be a small menace, like when he snuck his alarm clock into school and set it to go off during his least favorite class. A jokesterĮvans, the son of Janice and Howard Evans, grew up in North Adams. The next day, a bench was dedicated to him in North Adams.Īs Evans’ kids - Logan and Abigail - dashed about the golf course, surrounded by his lifelong friends, three of the people who loved him most recalled his life, his death and his legacy. They were gathered at a golf course in Stamford, Vt., for a fundraiser in his honor. On Saturday, his mother, Janice Evans, and sister, Julie Kucyn, sat down with The Eagle to speak about him in their first interview since he died, along with King. 6 insurrection that left the nation shaken and killed another USCP officer. He was just the sixth Capitol Police officer to die in the line of duty in the organization’s history, and his death came only months after the Jan. Evans died in April, at age 41, after an attacker rammed his car into him and another officer at a barricade at the Capitol, less than 100 feet from the building he had spent almost two decades protecting.