The deputy Larry Henderson went "the way of justice"

Family, friends and law enforcement colleagues gather on Friday for the last time for the deputy sheriff of Hamilton County, Larry Henderson, who was hit by a car and killed on May 2, while led the traffic outside the opening ceremony of the University of Cincinnati. Follow the reporting of the enquirer for updates all day.

12:58 PM procession arrives at the spring cemetery in Spring Grove

The procession that transports the body of the deputy Henderson came at the spring cemetery in Spring Grove for a private service with family and friends.

11:45 a.m.: Freund says, Henderson's “shift on earth was too short”

In his laudation of Deputy Henderson, Lt. remembered Dave downing to his friend as the person who was always there for others, first as a navy and later as a deputy who volunteered for the most dangerous orders, from the bomb squad to the Swat team.

He said Henderson could make the mood easier with a well -coordinated joke and often determine the standard for the department with his professionalism, speed and intensity in the job.

When Henderson relieved his colleagues after a long layer, everyone knew that they would leave their work in good hands.

“Go home,” Henderson would say. “I have it.”

Downing said he heard Henderson say these words several times when he could count. “It is finally our turn to relieve Larry,” said Downing. “His shift on earth was too short.”

Then Downing asked the many officers and MPs who were present to say with him that his shift was over.

“Go home,” he said. “I have it.”

After the eulogy, Rabbi Mendy Kalmanson, the Sheriff Department's chaplain, asked to remember Henderson by living her life as he did as “someone who did quietly and consistently good”.

This is the best way to fight the darkness that many of them feel when they mourn Henderson and his family. “A little light scattered a lot of darkness,” said Kalmanson. “Even a light flicker can change everything in a dark room.”

After the service, hundreds of officers and deputies prepared to join a long procession from the Cintas Center to the cemetery of Spring Grove, where Henderson was buried.

11:20 a.m.: Sheriff McGuffey says Henderson has “the way of justice”

Sheriff Charmaine McGuffey, who spoke with her own MPs and hundreds of law enforcement officers from all over the country, said every officer raised his hand to swear, “an oath to go the way of judiciary”.

But she said no officer done it alone. She said that husbands and women, sons and daughters and countless others share the load that the oath requires.

“Our families,” said McGuffey, “they also raised their hands.”

Larry Henderson Funeral: Sheriff says that Deputy has “gone the way of justice”

The Hamilton County Sheriff Charmaine McGuffey made comments on the funeral for the deputy Larry Henderson, who was hit by a car and killed on May 2, while led the traffic outside the opening ceremony of the University of Cincinnati.

When officials risk their lives, she said that families are worried and wait, and if they die when they keep their oath, the families suffer the most. But McGuffey said they don't have to suffer alone because they are part of an extended family of law enforcement officers.

“In the darkest time we have to grab each other so that we don't lose our way,” she said. “We will never go alone.”

11 a.m.: The memorial service begins with homage to deputy Henderson

Uniformed Pallbearers accompanied at 11 a.m. on Friday at 11 a.m. in the Cintas Center when a bagpiper played.

Family and friends took their places and closed Rabbi Mendy Kalmanson, a chaplain at the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office, at the beginning of the god of memory.

“We thank you for Larry's life, his courage and service,” said Kalmanson. “May Larry rest in her eternal care.”

The Rev. Steve Angi, a Catholic priest and a police chaplain, read a gospel reading in which she announces that “love carries all things, thinks all things, hopes all things, can withstand all things”.

“Love never fails,” said Angi.

10:35 a.m.: Arena fills with mourners for the service. “It is an honor to be here”

Criminal prosecution officers from all over the country joined the thousands of mourners in the Cintas Center for the memorial service for Deputy Henderson in the early Friday.

Sgt. Nicholas Cervantes came from Chicago with the non -profit brotherhood for the fallen. Cervantes has been a member for two years. “It's a tragedy, but it's an honor to be here,” said Cervantes.

Although several thousand people have arrived, the arena remains calm because the guests pay their respect. A huge American flag hangs on the stage, surrounded by flowers and a photo of Deputy Henderson in uniform.

Karen Dirr comes from Cincinnati, but traveled from Covington to be here. She said she just wanted to do her part.

Two MPs from the Sheriff of the Vigo County in Indiana said that they would enter into many services for fallen civil servants in the region. One of them, the deputy Jason Parker, said they came solidarity with Henderson's family and co -habits.

“We want to show the family that they are supported nationwide,” said Parker.

The public prosecutor's office of Hamilton County, Connie Pillich, who received a stricter murder system against Rodney Hinton Jr. on Thursday, received the man who was accused of killing Henderson with several members of her office.

“It's just a devastating tragedy,” she said.

8:30 a.m.: The procession arrives together with hundreds of mourners in the Cintas Center

Spring Grove Cemetery's funeral procession arrived at the Xavier University in the Cintas Center when Hundreds of Henderson streamed in the arena for the public visit and the memorial service.

The black corpse car with Henderson's body was accompanied by dozens of police crossers and motorcycles. The procession was hit in Cintas by a large American flag that was hung on the ladders of fire engines.

The service should begin at 9 a.m.

7:35 a.m.: Flags, signs and mourners welcome the first funeral procession

The first funeral procession with Henderson, which started at 7 a.m., stood hundreds of people on the route from the cemetery of the Spring Grove to the Cintas Center of Xavier University, where a public service is held.

A black corpse car that was flanked by police motorcycles that came by grieving to keep American flags and signs. Welcomed co -officers. A bagpipe played.

“We remember and honor the deputy Larry Henderson,” read a sign.

“In memory,” read another.

In the crowd along the Beechmont Avenue in Anderson Township, the 69 -year -old Linda Obert stood with other spectators and was waiting for the procession to be persecuted. She said she was support for Henderson, a retired navy who served 33 years as a deputy and for all law enforcement officers.

“I was only horrified,” said Obert about her reaction when she learned from Henderson's death. “It only hurt my heart to hear that.”

A public commemorative service for Henderson is two burial processes in the Cintas Center at 11 a.m. and one of friends and strangers after the service, also to show their respect.

Dozens of police cruisers from municipalities in the cincinnati area arrived in the Cintas Center before the procession, as firefighters developed a large American flag of ladder cars. Hundreds of Henderson's habits of the sheriff flocked to the arena shortly after 8 a.m.

Later, when Henderson's body returns to the Spring Grove's spring cemetery, a Caisson pulled by horses, who uses one on the Arlington National Cemetery, will bring Henderson to his grave place.

The man who is accused of death, Rodney Hinton Jr., is accused of deliberately driving his car in Henderson in Henderson in Henderson, the death of his 18-year-old son Ryan, who was shot by a police officer of Cincinnati on May 1, when he was ran out of a stole car with a weapon. Hinton is charged with severe murder and could face the death penalty if it is convicted.

Plan the funeral services and routes for processions

You need to know the following on Friday about the services and processions:

The public visit takes place from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the Cintas Center, 1624 Musketter Drive.
The public service takes place from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Cintas Center.

The first procession begins at 7 a.m. in the Spring Grove cemetery, 4521 Spring Grove Ave. This is the route:

From the cemetery it will bend right on Mitchell.

Travel the Interstate 75 south to Interstate 471, then south to east of Interstate 275.
Take the outcome to State Route 125, Beechmont Avenue.
Turn left into the Beechmont Avenue on the left.
Turn right into the Wolfangel Road on the right.
Turn left onto the state road.
Turn left onto the five mileage.
The procession will then travel to the west on the I-275, on the I-471 and on Interstate 71.
Exit to Martin Luther King.
Turn left to Gilbert Avenue on the left.
Turn left to the Victory Parkway on the left.
Turn on the right to Hopkins.
Turn right on webster to the Cintas Center of Xavier University.

After the funeral, the procession will leave the Cintas Center on the Webster Avenue.

It will then travel:

Left in the Hopkins Avenue.
Left on the Victory Parkway.
Right on the Gilbert Avenue.
Right on Martin Luther King Drive.
Right on the Clifton Avenue.
To the left of the Spring Grove Avenue and ends in the cemetery.

The deputy Larry Henderson went “the way of justice”