A wake will be held Thursday for the fourth victim, Officer Michael Krol, 40, with a funeral on Friday. He was remembered during a service at the Potter’s House in Dallas at 11 p.m. ET.
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Services for three of the five police officers who lost their lives after being ambushed by a sniper during a downtown protest last week were held on Wednesday.
Sergeant Smith and Officer Zamarripa were killed while standing guard as hundreds peacefully protested the recent police killings of two black men, Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, in Minnesota and Louisiana respectively. He leaves behind a wife, Heidi, and two young daughters.
The service featured a montage of photos of the 43-year-old Thompson with family, friends and fellow officers with the Dallas Area Rapid Transit.
Dallas PD officer Eddie Coffey, one of Ahrens’ colleagues, said he met him at the Dallas Police Academy and said he was determined to be a Dallas police officer.
Placer County Sheriff’s Office honor guard is part of a somber law-enforcement pilgrimage to honor the five Dallas Police officers killed in Dallas on Thursday by a sniper. He is the first DART officer killed in the line of duty since the agency’s police force was founded in 1989. He said Ahrens was a guy’s guy who loved his family and his career as a police officer.
Ahrens’ funeral will be held in Plano.
Police believe Thompson died trying to save Ahrens during the shootout. Castile’s girlfriend streamed the aftermath live on Facebook and said he was shot while reaching for his ID after telling the officer he had a gun permit and was armed. Lorne Ahrens before the funeral services in Plano, Texas on Wednesday. Police from around the country joined a community eager to honor the fallen Dallas officer.
The mother of the Dallas shooter says she believes he did what he thought “was right to correct the injustice in this world today”, though she doesn’t condone it.
Some of the officers will stay down in Dallas for the services for the other two officers killed. “You know your hate made us stronger”, she said, speaking of Johnson.
“I believe that Sgt. Mike Smith, my friend would expect me and you all to focus on the good memories”, Wyatt said.
At the service for DART officer Brent Thompson, we heard about another officer who chose a life of serving others.
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Thompson was laid to rest later Wednesday in Corsicana, south of Dallas.
