Hundreds attend funeral of Boulder police Officer Eric Talley, known as a quiet hero before final sa
Source: Denver Post
A gunman killed Talley, 51, and nine others inside a Boulder grocery store last week
By ELISE SCHMELZER | eschmelzer@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: March 30, 2021 at 4:09 p.m. | UPDATED: March 30, 2021 at 4:27 p.m.
LAFAYETTE — Before the seven-gun salute and the eulogies and the bagpipes, Boulder police Officer Eric Talley’s family stood in the wind and watched officers carefully pull his flag-draped casket from a hearse, one of his youngest sons dressed in a tiny black suit and holding the white-gloved hand of another officer.
Silence fell inside Flatirons Community Church, where hundreds of law enforcement officers from across Colorado and the country gathered Tuesday for Talley’s funeral service — eight days after he was shot and killed charging into a Boulder grocery store in response to a report of an active shooter. He was 51.
Nine others died at the King Soopers before Talley and two other officers arrived, but nobody else was shot after the officers confronted the gunman. Talley’s final sacrifice made sense for a man who was quietly heroic every day, his friends and fellow officers said at the service.
Read more: https://www.denverpost.com/2021/03/30/boulder-police-eric-talley-funeral/
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At the end of the service, officers slowly folded the flag draped on his casket. They kneeled before his wife and gave it to her. Then the Boulder Police Department made its final radio call to Talley, signifying his “end of watch.”
“We have the watch from here.”
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