Friends, family and former coworkers of slain Stockton Officer Jimmy Inn gathered at the Inn household on Thursday, where an altar sits in his memory. His father, Phalyl Lee Inn, let KCRA 3 into the family's home, where loved ones have shown up to pay their respects to Jimmy Inn. Sign up for our Newsletters Lee, as he likes to be called, wishes circumstances had been different with his only son. "I'd rather it would've been me and not my son.
Stockton police Officer Jimmy Inn was just 30 years old when he was killed in the line of duty Tuesday.
A longtime Stockton resident, the Ronald E. McNair High School and San Joaquin Delta College POST Academy graduate is remembered as an officer and a father.
Inn is survived by his wife, Tela Inn, who is also a Stockton police officer and a San Joaquin Delta College graduate, as well as a 7-month-old son, a 12-year-old stepdaughter and a 14-year-old stepson.
Inn was hired in December 2015 by the Stockton Police Department, where he became part of the Field Operations Division.
He was one of 18 new officers introduced by Stockton Police Chief Eric Jones during a welcoming ceremony in July 2016. The ceremony was just a week after he graduated from the Delta College POST Academy. Inn was also a member of the Stockton Police Department Honor Guard.
Officer Jimmy Inn s family and friends gathered to honor, mourn and remember him on Wednesday afternoon. Inn was fatally shot in the line of duty on Tuesday.