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"Hundreds of law enforcement officers and community members gathered in Eastman on Thursday to lay a fallen police officer to rest.&amp;nbsp; Eastman Police Officer Tim Smith was shot and killed in the line of duty on Saturday.&amp;nbsp;   \n\nPolice officers from as far as New York and Chicago gathered at Dodge County High School for Officer Smith\u2019s funeral service.&amp;nbsp;   \n\nFamily and friends say that Smith always made jokes and loved his three young children more than anything.&amp;nbsp; Friends also say he loved to hunt and fish.  \n\nFriends also described Smith as a police officer who always wanted to help people and was more interested in protecting people than making arrests.&amp;nbsp;   \n\n\"Tim was a hero.&amp;nbsp; Tim is a hero. Tim was a hero before he got shot. Any person that puts on a badge and gun I would say so I. Corrections and others if you put that on you\u2019re a hero,\u201D said Pastor Paul McDermitt, Jr. the Officiant of the funeral.  \n\n\"He would much rather help somebody than lock somebody up and some would testify that when they got tickets from him at different times, he was here to serve and protect,\u201D Pastor McDermitt said.  \n\n\u201COn behalf of the great peach state I hope you find strength by remembering the joy he brought to everyone he knew and his commitment to public service,\u201D said Harris Blackwood, a representative of Governor Nathan Deal\u2019s office.  \n\nSmith was 30 years old and would have turned 31 on Monday.  \n\nTwenty-four-year-old Royheem Deeds was recently captured in north Florida and charged with Officer Smith's murder."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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