Deputy Brad Garafola and two Baton Rouge police officers were killed outside a convenience store less than a mile from police headquarters.
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Funeral services for Baton Rouge Corporal Montrell Jackson will be held Monday starting at 9 a.m.at Living Faith Christian Center in Baton Rouge.
Baton Rouge Mayor Kip Holden, police leaders, family and friends honored Gerald at his funeral after his unexpected death. Additional mourners, many of them law enforcement officers from around the country, stood along the church walls.
Garafola’s boss, East Baton Rouge Sheriff Sid Gautreaux, described to reporters how he could see Garafola on surveillance video, firing at the gunman as bullets hit the concrete around him.
His brother-in-law, Jaye Cooper, said people called Garafola the neighborhood husband because he cut grass, caught snakes and did other chores around the neighborhood.
Garafola left his protected position to try to help the injured officer.
Gerald, a military veteran, was one of three officers killed by a lone gunman in Baton Rouge on July 17.
Another of the wounded, Deputy Bruce Simmons, left a Baton Rouge hospital on Thursday after surgeries to fix serious arm injuries.
A police officer who has been unconscious since being shot by the Baton Rouge shooter on Sunday squeezed the hand of a family member when she told him: “We need you”.
Two police officers and two sheriff’s deputies came from the Seattle, Washington area.
Early this morning law enforcement around Acadiana headed to Baton Rouge for the first of the three funerals.
During two hours of visitation before the funeral, a line of mourners snaked through the church hallways, out the back door and into the parking lot.
Early arrivals for Garafola’s service included a deputy who worked with Garafola in the department’s foreclosure division.
Deputy Garafola died a hero and on Saturday, people gathered by the thousands to pay tribute to his life and his bravery.
Hinds County Sheriff Victor Mason warns that targeting police has happened before and he said the question is when and where it will happen again. His funeral took place at Healing Place Church on Highland Road.
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Emily Garafola, mother, and John Garafola, father, of slain East Baton Rouge Sheriff deputy Brad Garafola, wave to crowds of well-wishers from his funeral procession as it passes the scene where Garafola and two Baton Rouge police officers were killed in Baton Rouge, La., Saturday, July 23, 2016.
