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Procession held for fallen Orlando police officer
Officers escort Kevin Valencia’s body from Leesburg to Orlando
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ORLANDO, Fla. – Officers with Orlando Police Department on Wednesday escorted the body of Officer Kevin Valencia from Lake County to his final resting place.
Valencia was shot in the head on June 11, 2018 as he tried to enter an Orlando apartment where a man had barricaded himself and four children inside.
The procession began around 10 a.m. Wednesday in Leesburg and concluded at Baldwin Fairchild funeral home in Orlando.
During the 55-mile journey, the vehicle carrying Valencia was escorted by a formal procession of vehicles, motorcycles and officers to honor the fallen police officer.
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ORLANDO, Fla. - The Orlando Police Department escorted the body of fallen Officer Kevin Valencia to a funeral home Wednesday morning.
The procession began at 10 a.m. from the District 5 Medical Examiner’s Office on Pine Street in Leesburg. It ended at the Baldwin-Fairchild Funeral Home at the Chapel Hill Cemetery in Union Park with officers saluting the husband and father of two sons.