NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Friends and family will say their final goodbyes to fallen Minneapolis police officer Jamal Mitchell in his home state of Connecticut on Monday.
Mitchell’s funeral, the last of several memorial services for the slain officer, will begin at 11 a.m. His final resting place will be Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven.
Mitchell, 36, died while helping the gunman who killed him in a chaotic shooting last month which left two other victims dead. Police also killed the gunman. Surviving victims include another police officer and a firefighter.
A memorial service was held last week in Maple Grove, where Mitchell lived with his fiancée and children in Minnesota. At the service, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara called Mitchell “heroic as a man to the end” and said he had posthumously received the department’s Medal of Honor and Purple Heart.
Mitchell was the third Minnesota police officer killed this year. Burnsville officers Paul Elmstrand and Matthew Ruge, and city firefighter Adam Finseth, were fatally shot during a standoff in February.
You can help support Mitchell’s family by donating to a memorial fund.
