Watch: Procession for fallen Deputy US Marshal Thomas Weeks
CHARLOTTE (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — A procession will be held on Wednesday for fallen Deputy US Marshal Thomas M. Weeks Jr. from Charlotte to Mooresville, authorities announced.
Weeks, 48, of Mooresville, died in the line of duty Monday when a suspect, identified as Terry Hughes Jr., 39, opened fire on law enforcement officers, killing Weeks and three others.
Weeks was part of a team executing a warrant for the arrest of Hughes, who was wanted out of Lincoln County, around 1:30 p.m. Monday in the 5000 block of Galway Drive in east Charlotte.
The other three law enforcement officers who were killed have been identified as:
Officer Joshua Eyer, CMPD (Also a Sergeant First Class in the North Carolina Army National Guard – 211th Military Police Company)
Samuel Poloche, NC Dept. of Adult Corrections (Member of U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force)
William Elliott, NC Dept. of Adult Corrections (Member of U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force)
Hughes was fatally shot by law enforcement on Monday when police said he came out of the east Charlotte home, armed.
Weeks was assigned to the Western District of North Carolina and supported the Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force. He was a 13-year veteran of the U.S. Marshals Service, serving in the Western District of North Carolina for the last 10 years.
Weeks started his USMS career in February 2011 in the District of Columbia’s Superior Court, Washington, DC. He transferred in November 2014 to Charlotte.
Prior to USMS, he spent eight years with Customs and Border Protection.
Heavy traffic is expected Wednesday along the procession route. Authorities said Weeks will be transported from the Medical Examiner’s Office in Charlotte to the Cavin-Cook Funeral Home in Mooresville at Exit 36. The procession is set to leave the Medical Examiner’s Office at 11 a.m.
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