NC Gov. Cooper will speak at the Fallen Heroes Memorial 9 days after officers were killed

RALEIGH, NC (WBTV) – North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper will be at the speech NC Adult Corrections Department‘ (NC DAC) annual Fallen Heroes Memorial on Wednesday morning.

This year’s NC DAC memorial comes just nine days after four police officers, including two NC DAC members, lost their lives while attempting to serve a warrant in East Charlotte.

Officers Alden Elliott and Sam Poloche, both with the NC DAC for 14 years, were members of a U.S. Marshals task force that executed the fugitive arrest warrant on April 29. Both died after the suspect opened fire.

The memorial will be in the Randall Building in Raleigh. There is a monument there in honor of fallen correctional officers. A complete list of NC DAC employees who have been killed in the line of duty or lost their lives at work can be found here Here.

Before Wednesday’s memorial service, Cooper attended the funerals of CMPD Officer Joshua Eyer and Deputy U.S. Marshal Thomas Weeks Jr. Eyer and Weeks were the other two members killed in the East Charlotte ambush.

The memorial can be watched live at 9:30 a.m. at the top of this story or on WBTV’s Facebook page.

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