‘We built this beautiful connection’—ROSHIN ALI After joining the police department in Jackson, Tenn., in May 2023, Roshin Ali caught the eye of fellow officer Tyler Schrupp. It took time for Schrupp, a self-described introvert, to introduce himself to the petite woman unafraid to speak her mind. But a couple of months later Schrupp saw her sitting in their jail’s control room and seized his chance to make an introduction. “I literally pointed at her—as in, ‘Found you,’ ” he recalls.
Only later did Schrupp, 38, learn that he’d actually looked for Ali, 29, before. In July 2010, when she was 13 years old, she ran away from her abusive home. Schrupp, then a 23-year-old rookie officer, had joined the patrol tasked with bringing her to safety. Thirteen years later…
