Omaha Police Officer Kerrie Orozco will be laid to rest Tuesday.
Orozco was remembered Monday night as a friend and a mentor who cared about her community. Inside St. John's Church, family, friends, and police officers from around the nation gathered to pay respects to the seven-year OPD veteran. Orozco was shot and killed last Wednesday while serving a warrant on 26-year-old Marcus Wheeler.
At a vigil Monday night, Orozco was remembered by her fellow officers as kind and compassionate, someone who cared about her community. Orozco coached youth baseball in north Omaha, and would stop to play basketball with kids. She was a member of the gang unit.
Reverend William Bond of St. Joseph Parish urged everyone to find hope and gratitude from the confusion and anger surrounding Orozco's death. He read a letter from the Orozco family, who remembered the Officer as always happy.
Orozco's funeral is this morning at 11 a.m. She'll be buried at St. Joseph's Cemetery in Council Bluffs. Officer Kerrie Orozco is survived by her husband, two stepchildren, and a three-month-old daughter.