Officer Johnson

Sergeant Derek Johnson  Draper Police Department, Utah

   End of Watch: Sunday, September 1, 2013

 

Anna, Jim and I had the opportunity of getting to know Officer Johnson via Peer Court. We were grief stricken by this tragic news. Sergeant Derek Johnson was shot and killed when he stopped to check on a vehicle parked on the side of South Fort Street shortly before 6:00 am. We were awakened that morning by hearing a helicopter flying low over our home. After receiving many texts, phone calls and watching the local news we were informed that we were to stay in our home and that church had been cancelled.

Investigators determined that a man and woman had been in an accident at 900 East and 13800 South, striking fixed objects, and kept going until they came to a stop at 13200 S. Fort St., where Johnson came across them. As he drove up, Johnson, 32, was "ambushed" by the man in a silver Volvo, who also shot the 34-year-old woman with him. After shooting at Johnson, the man turned the gun on himself. The man and woman survived the gun shots and have been sentenced to jail. 

The above pictures are of Kirsten helping put up flags the day before the funeral. On the day of, starting in Draper, Flags and people lined the entire procession.