A sign designating part of Kirkman Road in Orlando will be unveiled, honoring the legacy of Officer Kevin Valencia, who was killed in the line of duty.
A little more than three years after Officer Kevin Valencia’s passing, Meghan Valencia smiled tearfully as she watched Orlando police Chief Eric Smith tug at a black sheet covering a marker of her late husband’s legacy. “Officer Kevin Valencia Memorial Highway,” a stretch of South Kirkman Road between Vineland and Conroy roads, was unveiled Wednesday in honor of the Orlando police officer, who ...
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The life and legacy of Orlando police officer Kevin Andres Valencia, who died last year from a gunshot wound to the head suffered in 2018, were commemorated at Tuesday’s Orange County Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony.
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Procession held for fallen Orlando police officer
Officers escort Kevin Valencia’s body from Leesburg to Orlando
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ORLANDO, Fla. – Officers with Orlando Police Department on Wednesday escorted the body of Officer Kevin Valencia from Lake County to his final resting place.
Valencia was shot in the head on June 11, 2018 as he tried to enter an Orlando apartment where a man had barricaded himself and four children inside.
The procession began around 10 a.m. Wednesday in Leesburg and concluded at Baldwin Fairchild funeral home in Orlando.
During the 55-mile journey, the vehicle carrying Valencia was escorted by a formal procession of vehicles, motorcycles and officers to honor the fallen police officer.
Funeral procession held for fallen Orlando officer Kevin Valencia
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ORLANDO, Fla. - The Orlando Police Department escorted the body of fallen Officer Kevin Valencia to a funeral home Wednesday morning.
The procession began at 10 a.m. from the District 5 Medical Examiner’s Office on Pine Street in Leesburg. It ended at the Baldwin-Fairchild Funeral Home at the Chapel Hill Cemetery in Union Park with officers saluting the husband and father of two sons.