The color guard, made of officers from the Kenosha, Pleasant Prairie, UW-Parkside, Twin Lakes police departments and the Sheriff's Department retire the colors.
Local law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty were remembered at the Kenosha Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony, took place today in Kenosha.
Representatives of all Kenosha County police agencies were visible, including the Sheriff’s Department and Twin Lakes police.
The ceremony included remarks from representatives of those police agencies, a laying of flowers at the Kenosha Public Safety Monument, which memorializes the county police officers who died in the line of duty. Those individuals are:
Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department
- Blanco Aquino
- James C. Rieschl
- Frank Fabiano Jr
Kenosha Police Department
- Antonio Pingitore
- Gary W. Fraid
- Donald Murphy
- Dreux Beaulier
Also honored during the ceremony were:
- Gary Hamachek, a retired Kenosha police officer and investigator for the Twin Lakes Police Department who died in a 2008 motorcycle accident.
- Jason Zunker, a Chippewa County sheriff’s deputy who died in January 2008 from injuries he sustained while directing traffic at a vehicle fire.
Here is some video of the ceremony. First some sounds and sights:
Here is the conclusion of Sheriff David Beth’s comments:
And some more photos:
A state trooper lays a flower at the Kenosha Public Safety Mounument at the reading of the name of slain sheriff's Deputy Frank J. Fabiano Jr.
Kenosha Sheriff's Department supervisors listen as a prayer is read.
