>>> LIVE, THE ONE AND ONLY LOCAL 10 NEWS STARTS NOW. >>> AND RIGHT NOW AT NOON,
HONORING AN OFFICER.
A PROCESSION HELD FOR THE
MIAMI-DADE POLICE OFFICER SHOT
AND KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY
THIS WEEK, HIS BODY TRANSPORTED
FROM THE HOSPITAL TO THE
MIAMI-DADE MEDICAL EXAMINER’S
OFFICE AND YOU SAW IT LIVE HERE
ON LOCAL 10.
>>> THE 29-YEAR-OLD DETECTIVE
WAS SHOT ON MONDAY AND DIED ON
WEDNESDAY AFTER A FIVE YEAR
CAREER WITH THE MIAMI-DADE
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
HUNDREDS PARTICIPATING IN THE
PROCESSION TO PAY THEIR RESPECT
ASKS WE HAVE TEAM COVERAGE HERE
AT NOON.
>>> WE’RE GOING TO START THINGS
OFF WITH ANNALIESE GARCIA WHERE
THAT PROCESSION BEGAN IN MIAMI
AT JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.
>> WHAT AN EMOTIONAL PROCESSION,
VERY POWERFUL TO WATCH.
SOURCINGS WHO WERE RIGHT THERE
AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS
PHYSICALLY THERE TELL US THAT
THE MOTHER WAS VISUALLY
DISTRAUGHT AS YOU CAN IMAGINE.
WE WATCHED AND FELT EVERY MOMENT
FROM A DISTANCE, BUDDIED SEE THE
EMOTION AMONGST ALL THESE
OFFICERS AS THEY ESCORTED HIS
BODY TO THE MEDICAL EXAMINER’S
BODY.
>> OFFICERS SALUTING AS THE BODY
OF THEIR BROTHER IN BLUE WAS
LOADED ON TO THIS MIAMI-DADE
FIRE RESCUE TRUCK.
AN AMERICAN FLAG PLACED OVER THE
CASKET.
THE DETECTIVE A SON, A BROTHER,
A FIANCÉ.
HE WAS ON LIFE-SUPPORT FOR TWO
LONG CASE AND DIED WEDNESDAY
NIGHT.
THE PROCESSION TO MOVE HIS BODY
WAS FROM THE JACKSON MEMORIAL
HOSPITAL DIAGNOSTIC CENTER TO
THE MEDICAL EXAMINER’S OFFICE
WHERE HIS BODY NOW LIES.
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT SETTLE UP
THEIR TRUCKS OUTSIDE THE
BUILDING WITH A LARGE AMERICAN
FLAG HANGING IN SUPPORT.
EMOTION FILLED THE DISCREETS OF
THIS PROCESSION AS HIS BODY WAS
ESCORTED BY HIS FOAL FELLOW
OFFICERS AND HIS LAW ENFORCEMENT
FAMILY NOW WITH HEAVY HEARTS,
THEIR BROTHER WHO LOST HIS LIFE
IN THE LINE OF DUTY.
>>> AS FOR FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS
NOTHING HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED YET.
I DO KNOW THEY WERE SEARCHING
FOR A LARGE VENUE, BUT AS SOON
AS WE GET ANY INFORMATION ON
THAT WE’LL BE SURE TO BRING IT
TO YOU.
FOR NOW LIVE IN MIAMI, ANNALIESE
GARCIA.
>>> AND NOW LET’S TURN TO
REPORTER SAIRA ANWER.
>>> CHRISTIE AND THE OWE GEO
HUNDREDS OF OFFICERS LINED THE
STREETS UP TO THE MEDICAL
EXAMINER’S OFFICE, MEMBERS OF
THE PUBLIC WERE HERE TOO PAYING
THEIR RESPECTS.
>>> I FELT I HAD TO BE HERE.
COMING UP TENTH AVENUE YOU COULD
SEE IT ON THEIR FACES, EVERY
CITIZEN WHO HAS CALLED A POLICE
OFFICER, THEY SHOULD BE HERE AS
WELL.
>> OFFICERS FOR JURISDICTIONS
ACROSS SOUTH FLORIDA LINING THE
STREETS SURROUNDING JACKSON
MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AND THE
MEDICAL EXAMINER’S OFFICE FOR
THE PROCESSION.
THE BIGGEST TURNOUT AS
ANTICIPATED, MIAMI-DADE POLICE
DEPARTMENT.
OFFICERS ON FOOT, MOTORCYCLES,
MOUNTED PATROL AND PART OF THE
MOVING PROCESSION.
A MOVING MOMENT CAPTURED FROM A
HIGH VANTAGE POINT AS MIND FIRE
RESCUE RAISED THE AMERICAN FLAG
WITH TWO LADDER TRUCKS.
THE OFFICERS ARRIVING AND PAYING
THEIR AREN’TS FROM CORAL GABLES,
THE BROWARD SHERIFF’S OFFICE,
METALLY, MIAMI-DADE SCHOOLS,
WEST MIAMI AND OTHERWISE.
FIRE CHIEFS FROM THE CITY OF
MIAMI AND MIAMI-DADE FIRE RESCUE
ALSO PRESENT FOR THE PROCESSION.
OFFICERS SALUTING AS THEIR
FALLEN BROTHER’S BODY PASSES
THEM ON THE ROUTE ON NORTH
TENTH AVENUE.
>>> THE PHYSICAL DISTANCE
BETWEEN THE HOSPITAL AND THE
MEDICAL EXAMINER’S OFFICE IS
WITHIN ONE CITY BLOCK BUT THIS
WAS A SLOW AND SOMBER PROSES AND
IT STARTED AT TEN A.M. AND
LASTED ABOUT HALF AN HOUR.
THAT IS THE LATEST FROM MIAMI,
SAIRA ANWER.
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