ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - The procession of police and emergency vehicles stretched for longer than five minutes as the body of fallen officer Tyler Timmins was escorted from St. Louis City Medical Examiner’s office to a funeral home in Wood River, Illinois.
People were lined up along Route 111 in the Metro East on Wednesday afternoon to pay respects to the officer who was shot and killed on Tuesday morning. Timmins, 36, was approaching a vehicle suspected to be stolen when a man began firing shots at him. Timmins was rushed to a hospital in St. Louis where he was pronounced dead.
The suspect was arrested on the scene.
Among those to pay respects along the route Wednesday were a father and his two young sons, one held in his arms. Some waited with American and Thin Blue Line flags, while others stopped to get out of their cars as the procession rolled by.
Timmins will be laid in state at Marks Mortuary.
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