Hundreds of people lined the streets of Kent late Tuesday morning to honor fallen Kent Police Officer Diego Moreno as officers and firefighters from departments near and far led a large procession to the accesso ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n
A memorial service to honor the officer’s life and service is from 1 to 3 p.m. today at ShoWare.<\/p>\n
Officer Moreno, 35, of Auburn, was accidentally struck and killed by a patrol car in a suspect pursuit on July 22. The eight-year veteran is survived by his wife and two kids.<\/p>\n
“This is a sad time for Officer Moreno’s family, the Kent Police Department, the city of Kent family and the community,” said Kent Police Chief Rafael Padilla.<\/p>\n
Moreno is only the second Kent Police officer to die in the line of duty.<\/p>\n
For those who want to donate money to the family, an account has been set up through U.S Bank.<\/p>\n
Friends\/relatives of the family also set up a GoFundMe online account for Shelly Moreno and her children.<\/p>\n
Note: The Kent Reporter will have full coverage of the service followings its conclusion.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" People line the streets of Kent to view the procession for Officer Diego Moreno, who was killed in the line of duty on July 22 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":36042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-36041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36041"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=36041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}