{"id":300167,"date":"2026-05-05T02:41:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/300167\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T02:41:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:41:35","slug":"governor-newsom-honors-californias-fallen-peace-officer-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/300167\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Newsom honors California\u2019s fallen peace officer heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The memorial ceremony included a \u201cWalk of Honor\u201d for surviving family members from the west steps of the Capitol to the memorial monument for the Enrollment Ceremony, where the names of newly enrolled officers were formally added to the Memorial Monument.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-107034 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/375A7376-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The following fallen officers were recognized:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Distant Past<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Paul W. DeRouen, Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Department, EOW: March 29, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Recent Past and Current Year<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2025\/01\/09\/governor-newsoms-statement-on-the-death-of-riverside-county-sheriffs-deputy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deputy Timothy B. Corlew<\/a>, Riverside County Sheriff\u2019s Department, EOW: January 8, 2025<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2025\/03\/17\/governor-newsom-honors-fallen-san-bernardino-county-sheriffs-deputy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deputy Hector Cuevas, Jr<\/a>., San Bernardino County Sheriff\u2019s Department, EOW: March 17, 2025<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2025\/03\/26\/governor-newsom-honors-fallen-marysville-police-department-officer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Officer Osmar Rodarte<\/a>, Marysville Police Department, EOW: March 26, 2025<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2025\/06\/01\/governor-newsom-and-acting-governor-kounalakis-honor-fallen-baldwin-park-police-officer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Officer Samuel S. Riveros<\/a>, Baldwin Park Police Department, EOW: May 31, 2025<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2025\/06\/23\/governor-newsom-honors-fallen-los-angeles-police-sergeant\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sergeant Shiou Lih Deng<\/a>, Los Angeles Police Department, EOW: June 23, 2025<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2025\/07\/17\/governor-newsom-and-acting-governor-kounalakis-honor-fallen-cdcr-parole-agent\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Parole Agent Joshua L. Byrd<\/a>, CDCR, EOW: July 17, 2025<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2025\/07\/19\/governor-newsom-and-acting-governor-kounalakis-honor-fallen-los-angeles-county-sheriffs-department-detectives\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detective Joshua R. Kelley-Eklund<\/a>, Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department, EOW: July 18, 2025<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2025\/07\/19\/governor-newsom-and-acting-governor-kounalakis-honor-fallen-los-angeles-county-sheriffs-department-detectives\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detective Victor M. Lemus<\/a>, Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department, EOW: July 18, 2025<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2025\/07\/19\/governor-newsom-and-acting-governor-kounalakis-honor-fallen-los-angeles-county-sheriffs-department-detectives\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detective William C. Osborn<\/a>, Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department, EOW: July 18, 2025<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2025\/10\/21\/governor-newsom-honors-fallen-la-mesa-police-department-officer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Officer Lauren A. Craven<\/a>, La Mesa Police Department, EOW: October 20, 2025<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2025\/10\/27\/governor-newsom-honors-fallen-san-bernardino-county-sheriffs-deputy-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deputy Andrew Nunez<\/a>, San Bernardino County Sheriff\u2019s Department, EOW: October 27, 2025<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2025\/11\/20\/governor-newsom-honors-fallen-alhambra-police-department-officer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Officer Alec J. Sanders<\/a>, Alhambra Police Department, EOW: November 20, 2025<\/p>\n<p>This solemn ceremony incorporates many law enforcement traditions, including a riderless horse presentation, the folding of the flag of the United States, releasing of doves, and concludes with a 21-gun salute and the playing of Taps.<\/p>\n<p>In memorial, Governor Newsom ordered flags to be flown at half-staff over the State Capitol and Capitol Annex Swing Space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The memorial ceremony included a \u201cWalk of Honor\u201d for surviving family members from the west steps of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-300167","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\/300167","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=300167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}