âWeâre a better communityâ: Fallen Mount Holly Police Officer Tyler Herndon laid to rest
Friends, family and the community will say their final goodbyes
Hundreds gather to honor fallen Officer Tyler Herndon By WBTV Web Staff | December 13, 2020 at 4:04 PM EST - Updated December 16 at 3:33 PM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Mount Holly Police Officer Tyler Herndon was laid to rest Tuesday, just two days after what would have been his 26th birthday.
The community is grieving the law enforcement officer, considered a hero, who paid the ultimate price while fighting crime last week. Herndon was shot and killed just after 3:30 a.m. Friday when he responded to a breaking and entering call in Gaston County.
Community mourns loss of Mount Holly police officer killed in line of duty
Community mourns after officer shot and killed in Gaston County By WBTV Web Staff and Jennifer Miller | December 11, 2020 at 2:36 PM EST - Updated December 12 at 5:22 PM
GASTON COUNTY, N.C. (WBTV) - The community is mourning after a Mount Holly police officer was fatally shot near a Gaston County car wash Friday morning.
Tyler Avery Herndon, 25, was one of several officers responding to a breaking and entering call around 3:30 a.m. off Beatty Drive. When officers encountered the suspect, later identified as 24-year-old Joshua Tyler Funk, several shots were fired. Herndon was shot and taken to the hospital, where he died several hours later.