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Hundreds of individuals attended a memorial on Tuesday morning in West Palm Seashore, Florida, for 3 Palm Seashore Sheriff’s Workplace deputies who had been killed in a crash almost two weeks in the past.
Deputy Sheriff Ignacio “Dan” Diaz, Deputy Sheriff Ralph “Butch” Waller, and Corporal Luis Paez had been struck by a Jeep SUV on Nov. 21 whereas stopped with their bikes on the shoulder of Southern Boulevard, simply west of Seminole Pratt Whitney Street close to Wellington.
Waller and Paez had been pronounced useless on the hospital shortly after the crash, whereas Diaz was in important situation and underwent surgical procedure on the hospital however later succumbed to his accidents.
President-elect Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis had been in attendance, in accordance with Trump’s deputy director of communications Margo Martin, who posted photographs on X of DeSantis, Trump and Eric Trump on the memorial.
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The American flag hangs above the stage on the iThink Monetary Amphitheater on the South Florida Fairgrounds as folks collect on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024 for a memorial service for 3 Palm Seashore County sheriff’s deputies who died in a crash on Nov. 21 close to Wellington, Florida. (Invoice Ingram/Imagn)
“You’ll be able to prepare the deputies to cope with unhealthy guys, for visitors stops, excessive velocity chases,” Palm Seashore County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw stated at a press convention in entrance of the Fallen Officer’s Memorial Wall at PBSO. “There isn’t any coaching for this. They by no means noticed it coming. They by no means had an opportunity to attempt to save themselves.”
Greater than 7,000 folks had been anticipated to attend Tuesday’s memorial, he stated.
The general public memorial was set to happen on the iTHINK Monetary Amphitheater in West Palm Seashore. The procession was scheduled to start out at 9:30 a.m., adopted by an 11 a.m. service, which was anticipated to finish round 2 p.m.
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A glass partition stands in entrance of the speaker’s podium on the iThink Monetary Amphitheater on the South Florida Fairgrounds, the place the Palm Seashore County Sheriff’s Workplace is holding a memorial for 3 deputies who died in a Nov. 21 crash west of Wellington, Florida. (Invoice Ingram/Imagn)
Rescue automobiles carry the Palm Seashore County Sheriff’s Workplace deputies from the bike unit who had been struck and killed by a car. The procession carried the deputies to the PBSO morgue on Nov. 21, 2024 in West Palm Seashore, Florida. (Greg Lovett/Palm Seashore Put up/Imagn)
Rescue automobiles carry the Palm Seashore County Sheriff’s Workplace deputies from the bike unit who had been struck and killed by a car to the morgue on Nov. 21, 2024 in West Palm Seashore, Florida. (Greg Lovett/Palm Seashore Put up/Imagn)
The three deputies had been pulled over to the shoulder on their bikes, as one in every of them appeared to have a difficulty along with his bike, Bradshaw stated throughout a press convention after the crash. A girl driving her SUV down Southern Boulevard stumbled on a driver who was driving slower than her and veered towards the shoulder to cross however “overcompensated” and struck all three deputies, sending them “airborne,” Bradshaw added.
“Folks must take it significantly if you’re driving a car…that is 2,000 kilos of destruction if it isn’t dealt with correctly,” Bradshaw stated, including that the motive force is cooperating within the investigation and “feels horrible” about what occurred.
The Dec. 3 memorial for Deputy Sheriff Ignacio “Dan” Diaz, Deputy Sheriff Ralph “Butch” Waller, and Corporal Luis Paez, who had been struck by a Jeep SUV on Nov. 21 whereas stopped with their bikes on the shoulder of Southern Boulevard, simply west of Seminole Pratt Whitney Street close to Wellington, Florida. (PBSO/X)
Palm Seashore County deputies and others collect on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024 on the South Florida Fairgrounds close to Royal Palm Seashore for a memorial for 3 deputies who died in a Nov. 21 crash west of Wellington, Florida. (Invoice Ingram/Palm Seashore Put up)
Folks watch alongside State Street 7 on Dec. 3, 2024 as a procession passes by for 3 Palm Seashore County Sheriff’s Workplace deputies who died final month in a roadside crash. (Damon Higgins/Imagn)
Diaz, 51, joined PBSO in 2004 and had been with the company’s motor unit for greater than 10 years, in accordance with the Palm Seashore County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Paez, 58, labored for greater than 36 years with PBSO, beginning as a corrections deputy in 1988 earlier than transitioning to highway patrol and in the end serving as a motor deputy for greater than 20 years.
Waller, 54, labored within the motor unit for greater than 18 years, starting his legislation enforcement profession with the Royal Palm Seashore Police Division earlier than it merged with PBSO in October 2008.
“It by no means will get simpler,” Bradshaw stated, discussing the character of talking to relations of slain officers. “Whenever you look of their eyes, you see that ache…and I by no means get used to it.”
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Faculty Police Main J. McCarthy places his hand on his coronary heart after a motorcade drove by carrying two Palm Seashore County Sheriff’s Workplace deputies who had been struck and killed by a car on Thursday morning on Nov. 21, 2024 in West Palm Seashore, Florida. (Greg Lovett/Palm Seashore Put up/Imagn)
A police officer salutes on Dec. 3, 2024 as a procession for 3 Palm Seashore County Sheriff’s Workplace deputies who died final month in a roadside crash passes by on the best way to the iThink Monetary Amphitheatre on the South Florida Fairgrounds campus. (Damon Higgins/Imagn)
The crash is being investigated as a visitors murder case, Florida Freeway Patrol informed WPTV.
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It’s unclear if any prison costs shall be filed towards the girl who crashed into the deputies, however no costs have been filed towards her at the moment, the outlet reported.
“When a deputy dies, a bit of the neighborhood dies with them,” Bradshaw stated.
