Fellow officers and the public lined the streets in Springfield on Tuesday as fallen Springfield Police Officer Christopher Walsh was transported to a Springfield funeral home.
Officers saluted as Walsh’s body passed by on the way to Walnut Lawn Funeral Home in south Springfield.
Funeral arrangements have not been announced.
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Walsh was killed in a shootout at the Kum & Go convenience store on East Chestnut Monday morning.
Four others were killed, including the gunman.
Another person was wounded.
Springfield Police Officer Josiah Overton was wounded, but has been released from the hospital.
A fund has been set up to help Officer Walsh’s family.
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