TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The Tampa Police Department on Monday honored a fallen officer killed in the line of duty 25 years ago.<\/p>\n
Master Police Officer Lois Marrero was shot and killed while trying to catch a bank robbery suspect. She was 40 years old and had been with TPD for 19 years.<\/p>\n
She was the first female officer at TPD to die in the line of duty.<\/p>\n
TPD rededicated a portion of a road in her honor. It\u2019s a section of West Kennedy Boulevard between Lois Avenue and Dale Mabry Highway.<\/p>\n
It will be called the Master Police Officer Lois Marrero Memorial Highway. Signage for the road will be placed in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The Tampa Police Department on Monday honored a fallen officer killed in the line of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[767,2967,274,770,276,2200,115,277,275,135,137,136,278,2032,835],"class_list":["post-331014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-app-community","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-community-news","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-instagram-bn9","tag-news","tag-public-safety","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-top-stories","tag-trending-topics","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}