MAN WHO DIED FLEEING COPS REMEMBERED AS 'NAIVE'

Adam Miller who plunged to his death fleeing cops was remembered last night
as a caring and honourable young man whose life was robbed far too soon.

About 60 mourners gathered at Appel Funeral Home, 10530 116 St., to pay
their respects to the 21-year-old, who died a week ago after he jumped or
fell from a fourth-floor balcony in north Edmonton during a police drug raid.

"Maybe he was a little naive sometimes, because he was so generous," said
former roommate Joe Olstad, during the eulogy. "Maybe that's why he got
into trouble."

Friend Ira Meyer told Miller's mom Allie her son deserved to live a long and
prosperous life.

"I want to say Allie, 'I wish it was me over him, because it was not his
time'," Meyer said. "He was too good a person."

Mourners wanted to remember Miller as someone who died so another could live.

Allie and his sister Tabby requested his heart go to Saskatoon mom Cheryl
Olson, 31, who received a life-saving heart transplant at University
hospital shortly after Miller was taken off life support.

Chaplain Bonnie Herring-Cooper added: "It was his goodness that guided Allie
and Tabby to donate Adam's heart the night Adam died. That's what Adam would
have wanted."

A memorial to Adam at the front of the chapel held several photos of him,
his basketball and a dumbbell.

Allie said her son was hanging out last week with someone he'd met a week
before, when police burst into the apartment and "scared the hell" out of him.

Others arrested in the apartment said they mistook the raid for an attack by
members of a rival gang. Huu Pham, 15, of Calgary also plunged off the
balcony to his death.

At the time of Miller's death, the Victoria Composite high school grad
worked for a window company and was planning a career in either accounting
or nutrition, Allie said.