Nebraska law enforcement memorial honors fallen trooper, Lincoln officer
NSP Trooper Jerry Smith, LPD Investigator Mario Herrera, made 147th and 148th name etched into stone wall in Grand Island Share Updated: 9:15 PM CDT May 10, 2021
Nebraska law enforcement memorial honors fallen trooper, Lincoln officer
NSP Trooper Jerry Smith, LPD Investigator Mario Herrera, made 147th and 148th name etched into stone wall in Grand Island Share Updated: 9:15 PM CDT May 10, 2021
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Show Transcript MARIO HERRERA. JOSE ZOZAYA REPORTS. JOSE: PERMANENT ADDITIONS TO THE STONE MEMORIAL AT GRAND ISLAND. THEY HONORED MARIO HERRERA, SHOT IN 2020 WHILE SERVING A WARRANT TO A SUSPECT IN A MURDER CASE. OFFIC MARIO LUIS HERRERA. JOSE: STATE TROOPER WAS KILLED WHEN HIS CRUISER WAS STRUCK HEAD ON. THE IDEA THAT WE CAN SEE HIS NAME ALONG WITH THE OTHER HEROES WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IS INCREDIBLE. MAY THEIR LEGACY LIVE ON IN EVERY POLICE OFFICER THAT PRO
Son of slain Lincoln officer training to join the police
May 10, 2021
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) The son of a Lincoln police officer who was killed in the line of duty last year is training to become a police officer.
Carlos Herrera is on track to graduate from the police academy this spring and become a Lincoln police officer in June, according to the Lincoln Journal Star. His father, Mario Herrera, died last September about two weeks after he was shot while serving a warrant in Lincoln. Mario Herrera was the first Lincoln police officer killed on the job in more than 50 years.
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Anna Herrera, left, and Brittny Herrera, cousins of Bryan Peña Valencia, hold a press conference underneath Peña Valencia’s portrait on a building at 900 South and 300 West in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, May 5, 2021. Peña Valencia was shot by a Unified police officer on March 21, 2020, after police responded to a 911 call about gunshots in the area of 6200 S. Bangerter Highway.
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A $2.5 million civil lawsuit has been filed by the estate of a man shot and killed by a Unified police officer a shooting that prosecutors determined was not legally justified.