Law enforcement officers line streets of Savannah and Biloxi to honor the lives of two veteran police officers who were shot to death in the line of duty over the span of six days.
Thousands of law enforcement members lined the streets of two Southern U.S. cities on Monday to honor the lives of two veteran police officers who were shot to death in the line of duty over the span of six days.
Both men were in their uniforms and on the job when they were gunned down. McKeithen was killed on May 5 when he was ambushed and shot to death in front of the Biloxi police headquarters, allegedly by 19-year-old Darian Tawan Atkinson. On Saturday night, Ansari lost his life when he and another officer were fired on as they approached a car that had been involved in an earlier robbery.
While he said he wanted to focus on how McKeithen lived his life, Miller briefly noted how the officer died. Earlier on Monday in Savannah, Georgia, a police motorcade led a black hearse carrying the body of Sgt. Ansari, 50, from Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead early Sunday morning, to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab, where his autopsy is scheduled to be conducted.
“We lost a husband, we lost a father, we lost a leader," Savannah Police Chief Roy Minter said at a news conference Sunday night."Sergeant Ansari is survived by his wife and four children between the ages of five and 25.” The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Sunday that the suspect in the fatal shooting of Ansari had also died from injuries suffered in Saturday night's gun battle. He was identified as 49-year-old Edward Fuller III.
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