The Department of Criminal Justice Training will honor Marion Police Department Officer Louis W. Myers along with 24 other officers killed in the line of duty at its annual law enforcement memorial ceremony to be held at the Kentucky Law Enforcement Memorial, located at DOCJT in front of the John W. Bizzack Law Enforcement Training Complex on Eastern Kentucky University’s campus. Myers died Aug. 29, 1973.The agency will dedicate the officers' names on the memorial monument during the ceremony, Wednesday, May 21 at 11 a.m.
Kentucky state Rep. Harry Moberly will be the keynote speaker.
Of the 25 names that have been added to the monument this year and will be dedicated at the ceremony, three are of officers killed in 2007.
Myers was recently recognized by a similar ceremony at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C. Myers died in the line of duty 35 years ago while chasing a fugitive who had escaped from a nearby prison.
