Police have declined to say what role race might have played in Sunday’s rampage, which killed two white officers and one black officer.
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Visitation for Gerald, 41, is Thursday evening, with a funeral service to follow on Friday.
(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert). East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s deputies release balloons at a noon vigil organized by municipal court workers in downtown Baton Rouge, La., Wednesday, July 20, 2106, in honor of recent slain and injured sheriff deputies and poli…
On Monday, services for Officer Montrell Jackson will be held at the Living Faith Christian Center in Baton Rouge. Receivers coach Dameyune Craig’s uncle is an officer in the Baton Rouge Police Department.
Mike Edmonson described as a “calculated act, ” Gavin Long, a 29-year-old former Marine, shot and killed three police officers and left three others injured.
Garafola and two Baton Rouge police officers were shot and killed Sunday during an ambush.
Ganem, owner of Trey Ganem Designs in Edna, Texas, said employees spent hours researching each fallen officer, speaking to their families and designing the caskets.
Gerald, “a devoted husband and father of two”, served in the Marine Corps and Army before joining the police department, Baton Rouge Police Chief Carl Dabadie Jr. said. After three tours in Iraq, he could not stop serving and pledged to protect the streets of Baton Rouge.
Long, who also worked as a data network specialist, opened fire on police officers Sunday morning outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge.
Garafola leaves behind a wife and four children, Gautreaux said.
“We don’t know if this is going to be temporary”, McPhail said. Freshman tight end Jamal Pettigrew also has a family connection to law enforcement, a spokesman said.
Sgt. Gerald Parker, a close friend, described him as a “jack of all trades” who enjoyed helping people in his neighborhood, like mending their fences or mowing their lawns.
Baton Rouge is where police fatally shot Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, outside a convenience store on July 5.
The shooting of Sterling and another by Minnesota police of a black motorist led to a nationwide wave of marches against police abuses.
In the Facebook posting Jackson said while in uniform he gets nasty looks and out of uniform some consider him a threat.
Jackson’s father-in-law, Lonnie Jordan, called him a “gentle giant” – tall and stout and formidable-looking, but with a peaceful disposition.
The rifleman took out gunman Gavin Long while more than 100 yards away without a clear line of sight, Dabadie told CNN. A black military veteran, Long had posted rambling internet videos calling for violence in response to what he considered oppression. He also peddled self-published books about empowerment and spiritual enlightenment. The district is Louisiana’s only majority black district, representing New Orleans up the Mississippi River to part of Baton Rouge.
Another deputy, Nicholas Tullier, remains in the hospital.
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“You know the person that perpetrated the events on Sunday was not even from our community here in Baton Rouge or from the state of Louisiana so I think our community is very strong, we’re very united, doesn’t mean we don’t have problems, we’ll address those problems as a community and I think we were doing that and people that come in from outside our community to cause trouble have no place here”, Baton Rouge resident Corey Sylvest said.
