Visitation held for sheriff’s deputy killed in the line of duty
Friends, family, fellow law enforcement, the community and those that loved Deputy Herrera are at the St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Catholic Church to pay their respects at the visitation which started at 5:00 Thursday afternoon.
Hundreds of people filed into the church, some carrying flowers as they walked in. Law enforcement from Las Cruces, Horizon City, Dona Ana County, Border Patrol and El Paso in attendance at today’s services.
The Fire Department erected a large American flag for all to see, and to honor Deputy Herrera.
Javier Herrera, Deputy Herrera’s cousin, spoke with ABC 7’s Christina Aguayo and said that Deputy Herrera was one of a kind. “He was a wonderful person, a good husband, a good person everybody loved him he would always take his shirt off to help people out he was just loved by everybody his mother his father, relatives the whole nine yards he was a wonderful person, a beautiful person,” Herrera said.
The funeral mass for Herrera will be held Friday, also at the St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Catholic Church. Mass starts at 11 a.m. and burial will be after that at Evergreen Cemetery East 12400 Montana Ave.
