COLLEGEVILLE -- A hearse carrying the body of slain Cold Spring Police Officer Tom Decker has left funeral services at St. John's Abbey Church in Collegeville.

The hearse is now part of a long procession of cars -- many of them law enforcement squad cars -- that will travel from Collegeville to Richmond to Cold Spring and finally to the St. Nicholas Catholic Cemetery.

Decker worked as an officer in Richmond and Cold Spring.

Hundreds of people are lined-up in those communities and along the procession route to pay their respects to the 31-year-old Decker, who was shot and killed Thursday night responding to a welfare check call in Cold Spring.

No one has yet been charged in his ambush killing.

Law enforcement travel in a procession through Cold Spring on their way to the burial of Officer Tom Decker
Heather Schmitz, WJON News
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The funeral procession for Officer Tom Decker moves through Cold Spring on its way to the St. Nicholas Cemetery
Heather Schmitz, WJON News
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Officer Tom Decker funeral procession map.
Click to download a .pdf of the funeral procession route.
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