Every seat was filled at Edmonton’s Rogers Place, as Constables Travis Jordan and Brett Ryan were honoured and remembered at a regimental funeral held in the city’s downtown ice arena district.
An estimated 1,200 members of the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) attended the livestreamed funeral, along with politicians, emergency services workers, military members, and other emergency responders.
The two young constables were shot and killed on March 16 by a 16-year-old male teenager while attending to a domestic disturbance call. The teenager shot and seriously wounded his mother, and then took his own life.
The formal service included eight members of the EPS pipe band who created an altar of drums on the stage, a practice from battlefield funerals, and a troop the colours ceremony in which a flag was laid over the drums….