Funeral services are planned Monday, July 25, 2016, for police officer Montrell Jackson, a 32-year-old slain by a gunman who authorities said targeted law enforcement.
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Jackson described himself as being exhausted physically and emotionally following the police shooting death of Alton Sterling and he wrote on Facebook.
A tremendous show of support flooded the Living Faith Christian Center as law enforcement officers from all over the country and even Canada paid their respects to Jackson.
In partnership with WRKF in Baton Rouge and WWNO in New Orleans, KERA in Dallas/Fort Worth will produce “12 Days in July: Our Shared Tragedy”, an hourlong call-in special, at 1 p.m. Tuesday, July 26. Again and again during his funeral service, the third for Baton Rouge area law enforcers killed in the July 17 shooting by Gavin Long, those words were remembered.
Close friend Gelrod Armstrong described Jackson as respectful and someone who “lived his life as best as you could”. They spoke days after the Dallas police shootings.
Chief Carl Dabadie, Jr said earlier he had trained Jackson as a recruit.
Jackson was called a true hero a loving husband and father, so proud of his new baby just four months old. A prophetic Facebook post has become his last legacy and was referenced during the service by Gov. John Bel Edwards.
Thousands packed the Living Faith Christian Center in north Baton Rouge on Monday for a 2½-hour service celebrating city police officer Montrell Jackson.
A video presentation showing photos of Jackson included many with family, friends and his new baby. “He was an officer of the law who served with dignity and distinction [and] his end of watch came too soon”, he continued. He’d been at the two other funerals as well.
He said the effort was to show families “that their loved one was just as important to us as to them”.
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