{"id":300135,"date":"2026-05-05T02:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/300135\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T02:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:16:21","slug":"photos-sacramento-ceremony-honors-fallen-ca-peace-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/300135\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Sacramento ceremony honors fallen CA peace officers"},"content":{"rendered":"

California\u2019s law enforcement community gathered near the state Capitol on Monday to hold a sober ceremony enrolling new names of fallen officers on the California Peace Officers\u2019 Memorial.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s ceremony remembered 12 officers who died in the line of duty in 2025, including Marysville Police Department Officer Osmar Rodarte, who was slain on March 26, 2025, while helping execute a search warrant.<\/a><\/p>\n

Also honored was Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Deputy Paul W. DeRouen, who died on March 29, 2008, from injuries sustained 22 years earlier. DeRouen was six-year veteran of the department in 1986 when he was hit by vehicle while attempting to subdue a suspect on the side of an Elk Grove road in the fog. His left leg and part of his left hip were amputated.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is painful to hear the names of our fallen, because they are not just names to us \u2013 they are our family, they are our friends,\u201d said keynote speaker Los Angeles Sheriff Robert Luna, whose department lost three deputies in a training facility explosion last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey represent all that is good, brave, and honorable in our profession, and they remind us of what is sometimes the overwhelming cost.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 11 honored peace officers who died in the line of duty in 2025:<\/p>\n

Riverside County Sheriff\u2019s Deputy Timothy B. CorlewSan Bernardino County Sheriff\u2019s Deputy Hector Cuevas, Jr.Baldwin Park Police Officer Samuel S. RiverosLos Angeles Police Sgt. Shiou Lih DengCalifornia Department of Corrections parole agent Joshua L. ByrdLos Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Detective Joshua R. Kelley-EklundLos Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Detective Victor M. LemusLos Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Detective William C. OsbornLa Mesa Police Officer Lauren A. CravenSan Bernardino County Sheriff\u2019s Deputy Andrew NunezAlhambra Police Officer Alec J. Sanders<\/p>\n

The ceremony concluded with a 21-gun salute and playing of \u201cTaps.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bee\u2019s Hector Amezcua contributed to this story.<\/p>\n

\"Gov. Gov. Gavin Newsom places the American flag on the monument to fallen officers during the annual California Peace Officers\u2019 Memorial enrollment ceremony in Sacramento on Monday. HECTOR AMEZCUA hamezcua@sacbee.com \"Gov. Gov. Gavin Newsom is escorted by California Highway Patrol Commissioner Sean Duryee, left, and California Peace Officers\u2019 Memorial Foundation President Juan Viramontes during the 48th annual California Peace Officers\u2019 Memorial enrollment ceremony in Sacramento on Monday. HECTOR AMEZCUA hamezcua@sacbee.com \"Retiring Retiring Sacramento Police Chief Kathy Lester, right, marches with her interim replacement Zachary Bales to the annual California Peace Officers\u2019 Memorial enrollment ceremony in Sacramento on Monday. Lester will retire on May 15. HECTOR AMEZCUA hamezcua@sacbee.com <\/p>\n

This story was originally published May 4, 2026 at 4:00 PM.<\/p>\n


\n \"Profile
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Hector Amezcua<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Hector Amezcua is an award-winning visual journalist for The Sacramento Bee. Fluent in Spanish, he is a Fresno State graduate in journalism and Chicano studies. He has worked for McClatchy since 1992, taking pictures at all three Bee newsrooms in California.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California\u2019s law enforcement community gathered near the state Capitol on Monday to hold a sober ceremony enrolling new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-300135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}