Tulsa mourns officer, Marine killed in Iraq (Jared Shoemaker)

Services for Marine Cpl. Jared Shoemaker, a Tulsa police officer who was killed Sept. 4 in Iraq.

Motorcycle officers lead the funeral procession.

Kari Shoemaker touches the flag that had been draped on the casket of her husband, Marine Cpl. Jared Shoemaker, as others at a graveside service Friday at Floral Haven Memorial Gardens look skyward at a military aircraft flyover.

Metropolitan Tulsa came together as one community Friday to respect and pay tribute to the memory of Marine Cpl. Jared Shoemaker, who was killed Sept. 4 in Iraq.

More than 1,700 mourners packed the First United Methodist Church downtown, among them hundreds of police officers from Tulsa and across Oklahoma who came to honor one of their own.

Shoemaker, 29, a Marine reservist called into active duty in December, also was a Tulsa police officer.

To the soft organ music of "Ave Maria," Shoemaker's flag-draped oak casket was slowly wheeled into the sanctuary, led by a Marine and a Tulsa officer, and followed by police and Marine honor guards.

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