{"id":300150,"date":"2026-05-05T02:29:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/300150\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T02:29:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:29:37","slug":"marysville-sacramento-officers-honored-among-13-fallen-law-enforcement-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/300150\/","title":{"rendered":"Marysville, Sacramento officers honored among 13 fallen law enforcement officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Abridged version: <\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement officers from around California gathered in Sacramento on Monday to honor\u00a0officers who died in the line of duty, including an officer killed last year in Yuba County.<\/p>\n<p>The names of the officers were added to the\u00a0California Peace Officers\u2019\u00a0Memorial\u00a0in a ceremony\u00a0at Capitol\u00a0Mall on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Marysville Officer Osmar Rodarte\u202fwas among those honored. He died in March 2025 while serving a warrant in Olivehurst. Deputy Paul W. DeRouen of the Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Department was also honored 40 years after an injury ended his law enforcement career.<\/p>\n<p>The families of law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty gathered at the Capitol on Monday in a solemn ceremony to add the officers\u2019 names to the California Peace Officers\u2019 Memorial Monument.<\/p>\n<p>The 13-foot bronze monument depicts three law enforcement officers with the inscription: \u201cIn the Line of Duty.\u201d The names of fallen officers are added each May during the Annual California Peace Officers\u2019 Memorial Ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>Marysville Police Department Officer Osmar Rodarte was among those added to the monument on Monday. Rodarte was shot in March 2025 while serving a warrant in Olivehurst in Yuba County. <\/p>\n<p>The ceremony also honored Deputy Paul W. DeRouen of the Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Department in a category for those who died in the \u201cDistant Past.\u201d He was seriously injured in 1986 while on duty near Elk Grove Boulevard and died in 2008 following decades of complications stemming from the injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2026\/05\/04\/governor-newsom-honors-californias-fallen-peace-officer-heroes\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2026\/05\/04\/governor-newsom-honors-californias-fallen-peace-officer-heroes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">other officers honored Monday<\/a> were from Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Alhambra, La Mesa, Baldwin Park, Riverside and Oakland. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Peace-Officer-5-resized-e1777929060406-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"stage\" class=\"wp-image-13767 lazyload\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/577;\"\/>Attendees at the 2026 California Peace Officers\u2019 Memorial Ceremony. (Shelley Ho)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Peace-Officer-1-resized-e1777928982423-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"motorcycles\" class=\"wp-image-13763 lazyload\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/577;\"\/>Police motorcycles line the road near the Capitol in Sacramento during the 2026 California Peace Officers\u2019 Memorial Ceremony. (Shelley Ho)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Peace-Officer-3-resized-e1777929013760-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"sheriff\" class=\"wp-image-13765 lazyload\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/577;\"\/>Sheriff\u2019s officers from San Mateo County attend the 2026 California Peace Officers\u2019 Memorial Ceremony in Sacramento. (Shelley Ho)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Peace-Officer-4-resized-e1777929036829-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"police car\" class=\"wp-image-13766 lazyload\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/577;\"\/>Police cars from all over California parked near the 2026 California Peace Officers\u2019 Memorial Ceremony. (Shelley Ho)<\/p>\n<p>Christina Salerno is the Director of News Visuals at PBS KVIE and Abridged. Shelley Ho is a producer for PBS KVIE and a visual journalist for Abridged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Abridged version: Law enforcement officers from around California gathered in Sacramento on Monday to honor\u00a0officers who died&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-300150","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\/300150","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=300150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}