Police, community mourn fallen Harford deputy

Harford County Sheriff’s Deputy First Class William H. Beebe Jr. was mourned as a “consummate professional” and a dedicated father Friday, three days after dying in the line of duty from a heart attack.

Hundreds of mourners and police officers from nearly every agency in the Baltimore region filled the St. Ignatius Catholic Church in Hickory for Beebe?s funeral Mass, which began and ended with the roar of a police motorcade andthe somber silence of the police honor guard bearing his casket.