`ONE-14 BOY ... END OF WATCH AUG. 2, 2003' COLLEAGUES PAY FINAL TRIBUTE TO FALLEN DEPUTY.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer LANCASTER - Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley sheriff's deputies said a final goodbye Monday to fallen comrade Stephen Sorensen during a radio roll call. One by one, as their unit call signs were called, Sorensen's fellow deputies paid their respects in a sort of electronic memorial book that has become a department tradition. ``Steve, assist, protect and defend. Thank you for your service and your friendship,'' one deputy said. Another deputy said: ``Steve, job well done. Rest in peace.'' Other deputies, some with their voices cracking, chimed in: ``God bless your family. Thank you for everything you gave us.'' ``Steve, we're all better people for having known you. Be at peace, my brother. Godspeed.'' ``Steve, God bless you. You were a hero to all of us.'' The roll call ended with the dispatcher Software that determines what pending tasks should be done next and assigns the available resources to accomplish it. It may execute other programs or generate a list for human operators to follow. See scheduler. using Sorensen's radio call sign in a final message: ``This completes Lancaster/Palmdale station end of watch roll call. One-14 Boy, Deputy Stephen Sorensen, end of watch Aug. 2, 2003. Lest we forget Lest We Forget is a phrase popularised in 1887, by Rudyard Kipling; it formed the refrain of his poem Recessional. As a title, it may refer to any of:
Sorensen, 46, the Lake Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. resident deputy, was killed Aug. 2 as he was following up on a trespassing investigation at an isolated desert trailer home occupied by Donald Kueck, 52. After a six-day manhunt man·hunt n. An organized, extensive search for a person, usually a fugitive criminal. manhunt Noun an organized search, usually by police, for a wanted man or fugitive Noun 1. , Kueck was cornered Friday at another remote home and died during a gunbattle that ignited ig·nite v. ig·nit·ed, ig·nit·ing, ig·nites v.tr. 1. a. To cause to burn. b. To set fire to. 2. To subject to great heat, especially to make luminous by heat. a fire. Kueck admitted to the slaying in a cell-phone conversation, sheriff's officials said. Sheriff Lee Baca Leroy David Baca (b. May 27 1942, East Los Angeles, California) is the Sheriff of Los Angeles County, California. After graduating from Benjamin Franklin High School (Los Angeles) in 1960, Baca worked his way through East Los Angeles College before starting with the L.A. said Kueck had been angry that Sorensen had come to his home, even though Kueck wasn't the suspect in the trespassing investigation. Jim Skeen, (661) 267-5743 james.skeen(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color -- ran in AV edition only) STEPHEN SORENSEN Killed Aug. 2 while responding to a trespassing report. |
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