Yesterday, Superintendent Steve Brown, a close colleague of Clunis, said he had been in touch with Clunis throughout the day and was on his way to see him when he received the devastating news of his passing.
Brown admitted that just after the Horizon Park incident he and his colleagues had feared the worst, but were in high spirits after Clunis had shown signs of making a full recovery.
We knew him as a fighter, and so we had high expectations that he would pull through,” Brown said, adding that Clunis was his batchmate at the police training school.
Stephanie Lindsay, senior superintendent of police and head of the JCF's Corporate Communication Unit, was in tears as she talked with the media about her colleague's unexpected passing.
Senior Superintendent of Police Carl Ferguson, who was Clunis's operations manager, told the Observer that he was out of town when he learnt of his colleague's passing.
