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| Fredinburg, other fallen officers to be honored |
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| SALEM - A ceremony honoring fallen Oregon law enforcement officers, including the late Kelly James Fredinburg, an Independence resident and Marion County Sheriff's Deputy, will take place Thursday, May 8. |
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By Kurt Holland
SALEM - A ceremony honoring fallen Oregon law enforcement officers, including the late Kelly James Fredinburg, an Independence resident and Marion County Sheriff's Deputy, will take place Thursday, May 8.
The annual event, which started in 1991, begins at 1 p.m. at the Oregon Public Safety Academy at 41990 Aumsville Highway in Salem.
"It is our intent to pay tribute to those who have made such an incredible sacrifice," said John Minnis, director of the Oregon Department of Public Safety and Standards (DPSST), "while ensuring the safety of others."
Families, friends and peers of the deceased officers are invited to a memorial luncheon at the safety academy at 11 a.m.
Wreaths will be laid at the memorial wall and surviving family members will be given prints of the monument by retiring Attorney General and keynote speaker Hardy Myers.
The names of Oregon's 167 fallen officers will be read at the ceremony, including Fredinburg.
He started his career as a reserve officer for the Polk County Sheriff's Office in 1997. He spent eight years there before accepting a job with Marion County in 2006.
Fredinburg was driving on Highway 99E near Gervais last June while responding to a physical dispute call when a vehicle traveling in the opposite direction crossed the center line and hit Fredinburg's cruiser head-on.
Fredinburg and a passenger in the other car were killed.
The driver of the other car, Alfredo De Jesus Ascencio, 20, of Woodburn, was indicted by a Marion County grand jury for criminally negligent homicide. He disappeared last August.
A $1,000 reward has been offered for information leading to Ascencio's arrest.
"It is people like Kelly whose selfless actions remind us all what it means to be a hero," Minnis said.
For more information about the memorial ceremony: Jeanine Hohn, 503-378-4404.
Local deputy is one
of 190 in U.S. to die
on duty during 2007
A "Drive to Remember" on April 30 honored the 190 law enforcement officers from the United States and Canada who were killed in the line of duty during 2007.
Special honor was paid to Marion County Sheriff's Deputy Kelly Fredinburg of Independence, who lost his life while responding to a call for assistance last year. |
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