MOUNT PENN, Pa. – From one officer and department to another — an artistic effort to honor those who gave their lives in the line of duty.<\/p>\n
\u201cJonny Castro is a sworn officer with the city of Philadelphia Police Department. He’s also an Army veteran, he’s nationally known as a forensic artist,” said Det. Joseph Taimanglo of the Central Berks Police Department.<\/p>\n
A portrait of fallen Central Berks Police Officer Kristen Yeager, killed in a crash while responding to a call to assist another department last month, now is on display next to her desk, which is filled with flowers.<\/p>\n
“He has an Etsy page where he sells some of his other artwork that funds 100% of this project to provide portraits of the fallen,\u201d Taimanglo said.<\/p>\n
This portrait is the latest in a long line of mementos that the Central Berks Police Department has received to honor fallen Officer Yeager ahead of her funeral.<\/p>\n
“The officers were extremely grateful. As soon as they opened it they put it right on display. I know her family was in contact with Jonny they were aware that a portrait was coming,\u201d Taimanglo said.<\/p>\n
>Her story of sacrifice is one that’s spreading.<\/p>\n
“Getting letters of condolence from police departments all over the country. I know has had an impact on the officers here,\u201d said Taimanglo.<\/p>\n
Community fundraisers have been popping up to support her family, but first — the department and community are preparing to say goodbye on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“We all just preparing for a tough day,\u201d said Taimanglo.<\/p>\n
An End of Watch ceremony will be held at Don Thomas Stadium at Exeter Township Senior High School at 12:00 p.m. Tuesday. Gates open at 11:00 a.m..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOUNT PENN, Pa. – From one officer and department to another — an artistic effort to honor those…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[93786,42240,93790,81404,93788,93787,90722,93789,2245,34204,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-214051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-central-berks-police","tag-community-fundraiser","tag-end-of-watch","tag-fallen-officer","tag-forensic-artist","tag-jonny-castro","tag-kristen-yeager","tag-memorial-art","tag-philadelphia-police","tag-portrait","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}