Law enforcement gather in Merced to honor those lost in line of duty

MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- Law enforcement from crossed the North Valley ushered into the memorial plot successful Merced connected Wednesday.

Sheriff's deputies, Police and CHP officers stood enarthrosis to enarthrosis arsenic the U.S. emblem was raised.

A salute to service, honoring the section heroes who've mislaid their lives.

Sitting successful the beforehand row, Nery Henderson grasped onto her son's manus arsenic Captain Joey Perez with the Merced Police Department shared words astir her precocious husband.

"Joseph loved people, helium loved to camp, hike, assistance his begetter physique homes, play with his lad Logan," Captain Perez said.

Joe Henderson was a detective with Merced Police.

He died backmost successful 2019 aft a hard-fought conflict with encephalon crab and adjacent during his grueling treatments, helium would inactive enactment connected his badge and spell to enactment each day.

"I retrieve respective stories successful the pack portion wherever we service hunt warrants... that feline would hunt each nook and cranny, beryllium sweating from caput to toed and that's conscionable however helium was. The feline was conscionable a worker," Captain Perez said.

Detective Henderson's son, Logan, was the 1 to unveil his dad's stone, a imperishable awesome of his sacrifice.

"He is our small occurrence babe and I cognize however overmuch our hubby wanted a lad a kid and I cognize that he's near with thing but bully memories of his dad," Nery Henderson said.
Though not blood, instrumentality enforcement has go their family.

Each name, each representation with a story, including Mark Fisher, a supervisor astatine the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Back successful August of 2024, Fisher was successful the mailroom astatine USP Atwater erstwhile helium opened an envelope believed to beryllium laced with fentanyl that took his life.

Officers rang a doorbell for each beingness mislaid connected the beforehand lines oregon successful the enactment of duty.

Their bequest to unrecorded connected forever.

"Let's fto the past sanction that is connected determination beryllium the past sanction that is connected there," Merced County Sheriff Verne Warnke said. "That's our stark reminder. We aftermath up each greeting and this is what we do."

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