Fellow officers and family members are mourning a veteran Miami Beach Police officer who was killed in a motorcycle crash on Tuesday.
Tributes have been pouring in on social media for Officer David Cajuso, who lost his life in the crash along Interstate 75.
“A decorated, decorated hero,” Miami Beach Police Chief Wayne Jones said of Cajuso.
Cajuso, 33, was a 10-year veteran of the department and leaves behind a wife and three young children, ages 2, 3, and 5, Jones said.
Miami Beach Police Department
Miami Beach Police Department
Officer David Cajuso
Within hours of his death, fellow officers from departments across South Florida lined a procession in his honor.
Officers were seen comforting his family while his wife kissed his casket.
On Wednesday, flags outside the Miami Beach Police Department were being kept at half-staff.
The department said funeral arrangements were being planned.
The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating the crash but said no other vehicles were involved.
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A fire rescue helicopter responds to a motorcycle crash off the Gratigny Parkway in Miami-Dade on Tuesday to airlift a Miami Beach Police officer.
During Cajuso’s time with the department, he caught a six-foot python in 2020 and was run over by a woman in a BMW in 2017 before officers shot and killed her.
Meanwhile, a 2017 crash on the same stretch of I-75, left another officer, Miami-Dade Maj. Ricky Carter, severely injured. Doctors had to amputate both of his legs but he survived.