The community gathered to say goodbye, three separate services honoring each officer. Lorne Ahrens’ funeral took place in Plano, where loved ones remembered the person.
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The massacre in Dallas, which left five police officers killed and 11 people injured, 9 police and 2 civilians, is now the deadliest attack on U.S. law enforcement since the 9/11 attacks on NY. “Brent was a son, a brother, an uncle and an all-around phenomenal guy”, Emily Thompson, Officer Brent Thompson’s widow said at the service.
After school, he went on to work for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, as well as playing semi-pro football.
DALLAS-Thousands of police officers joined by ordinary citizens attended funerals on Wednesday for three of the policemen shot dead in a racially motivated ambush attack last week that intensified America’s long-running debate on race and justice.
Almost a week after five officers were killed by a gunman in Dallas, memorial services for three of them drew thousands of mourners Wednesday.
Thompson was married two weeks ago to a fellow DART officer and was the first DART officer killed in the line of duty for the department.
After a Dallas memorial service, Thompson’s funeral will be at a church in Corsicana, the town south of Dallas where he lived.
He is remembered as a devoted family man and exemplary officer.
Eddie Coffey, who studied at the police academy at the same time as Ahrens, recalled his tattooed friend’s love of heavy-metal music.
Police officers in their formal attire visited the memorial held at The Potter’s House, a popular church whose clergy’s main authority is Bishop T.D. Jakes.
The next day at Lorne’s funeral, pastor Rick Owen told the grieving children that their dad was caught up in a “storm” on that tragic night in Dallas, reports the Dallas News.
Mourners grieve at a casket of slain Dallas police Sgt. Michael Smith during a visitation for his body Tuesday.
Johnson’s traveling companion and fellow honor guard representative William Bookout said that the trip was “unfortunately something we do more often than we’d like”.
Funerals were also held for Sergeant Michael Smith, 55, and Officer Lorne Ahrens, 48, of the Dallas Police Department.
The service begins at 1 p.m. ET at The Watermark Church in Dallas.
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The two other officers gunned down on Thursday, July 7th by a sniper during what was a peaceful protest over the shooting deaths of two African-American men by police in Louisiana and Minnesota in downtown Dallas will be laid to rest later this week.
