ST. LOUIS — Hundreds of mourners have gathered to lay to rest a Missouri police officer who was fatally shot in the line of duty.
St. Louis police Officer Tamarris Bohannon was remembered in services Sunday as a family man and dedicated civil servant, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Bohannon was shot in the headby a gunman who barricaded himself inside someone else's home on the south side of St. Louis Aug. 29. The 29-year-old married father of three died the following day.
Thomas Kinworthy Jr., 43, of Owensville, Missouri, has been charged with murder in his death.
The funeral events started with a procession from a funeral home to the St. Louis Cathedral Basilica.
St. Louis resident Berenice Wilkerson was among those who came to pay their respects.
“It’s a horrible thing that happened,” she said. “He put his life on the line every day for us. This is the least I can do."
