TEMPLE, Texas (AP) — Funeral is scheduled for Thursday in Temple for the police chief and lone police officer in a small Central Texas town, who was shot dead in the line of duty.
The funeral will be Thursday morning at Temple Bible Church for Little River-Academy Police Chief Lee Dixon. After the funeral, full police honors will be paid to Dixon at a ceremony at the Bell County Expo Center in Belton.
A visitation is scheduled for Wednesday night at the Temple church.
Dixon had been on the job for a month when he was shot and killed Thursday while answering a report of a man with a gun.
David Gene Risner is charged with capital murder in the slaying. He is jailed without bond in the Bell County Jail in Belton.
