A horse-drawn carriage carried the body of Americus police officer Nicholas Smarr, 25, his casket draped with the American flag and led by an honor guard. “It’s not fair for them to go so young,” he told the newspaper. Minquell Lembrick, 32, the suspect in the shootings, was found dead Thursday from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, police have said.
Hundreds of people paid their last respects during a funeral and burial Sunday for a Georgia police officer shot and killed with his best friend and fellow officer last week.
A horse-drawn carriage carried the body of Americus police officer Nicholas Smarr, 25, his casket draped with the American flag and led by an honor guard, The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reported. Mourners lined the route of the procession, somberly waving flags as some wiped away tears.
Smarr and Jody Smith, a 26-year-old officer with Georgia Southwestern State University, were shot…
