Police officers, dignitaries, family and friends will pay tribute to Ontario Provincial Police Sergeant Eric Mueller today at the 10th funeral for a police officer killed on the job in Canada in the last eight months.
Last week, Mueller and two other officers were shot after they approached a house at 2 a-m in the small town of Bourget (bor-ZHET'), outside of Ottawa, after neighbours complained about the sound of gunshots.
Mueller died later that day in an Ottawa hospital, while the other two officers survived with injuries.
The O-P-P expects thousands of people to line highway overpasses to pay their respects as Mueller's body is transported from a funeral home in the nearby community of Rockland to the west end of Ottawa, where he will be celebrated and mourned at a ceremony in the Canadian Tire Centre.
Shortly after Mueller's death, O-P-P Commissioner Thomas Carrique (kuh-REEK') told reporters he was an exemplary officer, a coach and a mentor.
He was also a husband and a father of two.