Global Courant 2023-05-13 20:47:00
The body of OPP Sgt. Eric Mueller will leave Ottawa on Saturday in a 23-mile procession to Rockland, Ontario, east of the state capital.
Mueller, 42, was shot and killed in Bourget, Ontario. on Thursday while responding to a fault call. Two other OPP officers were injured in the attack that OPP Commissioner Thomas Carrique characterized as an “ambush”.
The procession departs the Ottawa Hospital General Campus at 3:45 PM and travels along Highway 417 east to Highway 174, which becomes Highway 17, to Rockland, arriving at 4:30 PM.
The OPP will stream the procession Twitter And Facebook. It will also be streamed on this page.
The OPP is inviting members of the public to join other first responders in witnessing the procession from highway overpasses along the route or along the shoulder of the two-way section of Highway 17. Police are asking those who wish to pay their respects not to stop on the multi-lane section of the highways to exit their vehicles as this poses a serious safety risk.
A police funeral will be held Thursday at the Canadian Tire Center in Ottawa. Details will be announced as they are finalized, the OPP said.
Mueller was a 21-year veteran of the police force who began his police career in 2002 in Ottawa. In 2006 he was hired as a provincial constable and in 2018 he was promoted to sergeant.
Mueller is survived by a wife and two young children.
Alain Bellefeuille, 39, was arrested and has been charged with one count of first-degree murder in Mueller’s death and two counts of attempted murder.
