TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - The memorial service has been scheduled for a western Washington sheriff’s deputy who died in a car crash while rushing to assist other officers last week.
Pierce County Sheriff’s Deputy Cooper Dyson, 25, will be honored with a public service at 1 p.m. Monday at the Tacoma Dome. The street procession will begin at 11 a.m. at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
Dyson died on December 21 after his patrol car crashed into a commercial building while he was on his way to back up two fellow officers already dispatched to a house in Parkland for an urgent domestic violence call.
Dyson had been with the department since 2018.
He is survived by his 2-year-old child and his pregnant wife.
It was the first motor vehicle collision death of a Pierce County Sheriff’s deputy since 1941.
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