CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WGHP) — Deputies with the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office Honor Guard are always on standby to march for retired sworn or non-sworn officers killed in the line of duty.
On Friday morning, they’ve been assigned to honor the life and legacy of fallen Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer 31-year-old Joshua Eyer.
Biden, after meeting with families of officers killed in NC, says the nation is grieving with them On Monday, the husband and father was one of four law enforcement officers shot and killed while executing a warrant to shooting suspect Terry Hughes at a home off Galway Drive in East Charlotte.
This is a tragedy Guilford Sheriff’s Office Major Antonelli has been processing all week.
“It’s very difficult because it always hits home. It doesn’t matter what law enforcement agency you work for. It always resonates with the officers,” Antonelli said.
They’re not the only ones from the Triad paying tribute to Eyers.
High Point police, Winston-Salem police, Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office deputies and Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office deputies all plan on attending the funeral.
Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page says he’ll also be there to pay his respects.
“I appreciate everybody across North Carolina supporting the chief and the men and women of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. The U.S Marshals service and everything they do and these task forces. They help us get the worst of the worst off the streets. And that’s what they were doing. They were doing their jobs,” Page said.
Page says in his 26 years on the job, he’s never lost a deputy in the line of duty.
But he has had four deputies get shot.
The situation in Charlotte is a sad reminder of the dangers first responders face every day.
“We’ve never lost an officer in the line of duty, but it can happen. Every day … they go out there. There are dangers and risk that you’re going to experience, and we want everyone to go to work, protect and serve and go home to their families,” Page said.
A spokesperson for Greensboro police says they’re working on plans to attend Eyer’s funeral.
It begins at 10 a.m. at the First Baptist Church in Uptown Charlotte.
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