COLLINSVILLE, Ill. (KMOX) - Metro East residents are being "highly encouraged" to line the roads along the procession route for fallen Pontoon Beach Officer Tyler Timmins on Tuesday afternoon.
He was killed in the line of duty on Oct. 26 when a man inside a suspected stolen vehicle jumped out of the vehicle and shot Timmins as he approached. He was airlifted to a hospital in St. Louis where he was pronounced dead. He left behind a wife and daughter.
The private funeral begins at 11 a.m. at Gateway Convention Center, 1 Gateway Drive in Collinsville. Then the procession will take his body to Woodland Hill Cemetery in East Alton for the private burial service.
Authorities are asking the public to be part of the procession, which will begin after the funeral. Here's the route:
• West on Gateway Drive
• North on Eastport Plaza Drive
• West on Horseshoe Lake Road
• North on Illinois Route 111 (Through Pontoon Beach)
• East on Interstate 270
• North on Illinois Route 255
• West on Madison Avenue
• North on Illinois Route 111 (Through Roxana and into Wood River)
• West on Edwardsville Road (Large law enforcement procession will end here)
Police arrested the shooter, Scott Hyden, 31, of Highland, Illinois on the scene of the fatal shooting. He has been charged with one count of aggravated discharge of a firearm at a peace officer, one count of unlawful possession of weapons by a felon, one count of unlawful possession of a stolen firearm, and one count of offenses relating to motor vehicles.
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