Procession scheduled Thursday for officer Alden Elliott, killed in Charlotte shooting

A law enforcement procession is scheduled from Charlotte to Newton Thursday morning for slain officer Alden Elliott.

Elliott died in Monday’s Charlotte shooting where four law enforcement officers were killed and four more shot and injured.

Elliott was a 14-year officer with the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction.He died getting the bad guys, that’s what he was good at.

Elliott had a wife and a child.

The procession will leave the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiners’ Office, 3440 Reno Ave. in Charlotte, at about 10:30 a.m., State Highway Patrol Trooper Christopher Casey said.

The procession will travel on N.C. 16 to Bennett Funeral Home in Newton and last about an hour, Casey said.

On Wednesday, scores of residents held American flags on bridges over Interstate 77 during a law enforcement procession from Charlotte to Mooresville for Deputy U.S. Marshal Thomas M. “Tommy” Weeks Jr., also killed in the attack.

Weeks and Elliot belonged to a U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force. A third member of the task force, Sam Poloche, also died. Poloche also was a 14-year veteran of the Department of Adult Correction.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer Joshua Eyer died late Monday at a hospital.