Deputy memorial

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Via KTRK:

The memorial site to Deputy Darren Goforth is winding down, but slowly. Volunteers say the place where he was gunned down in an ambush last Friday night, will remain what they call ‘the public’s place to grieve’ for a few more days, possibly for another week.

For the past week, it became a kind of hallowed ground where people paid their respects to a man, killed by a man who ambushed him, for no other apparent reason than that Goforth was in uniform while he fueled his patrol car.

Volunteers are planning on a permanent memorial near the gas station. They hope there will be a bench and a small garden.

“A place where people can reflect on something that should never have happened,” one person said.

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