Slidell Law Enforcement Officers Remember Those Who Died in The Line of Duty

ENFORCEMENT FAMILY. HEATH: A BLUSTERING WIND WHIPPED A HUGE AMERICAN FLAG, AS THE FAMILIES OF FALLEN POLICE OFFICERS, AND THEIR COMRADES IN ARMS, WALKED A ROSE LADEN WREATH TO A NEWLY ERECTED POLICE MEMORIAL. NO MATTER HOW MANY YEARS PASS, BOTH THE PRIDE AND THE PAIN, STILL FRESH. COVINGTON POLICE LIEUTENANT WADE SHARP WAS KILLED IN 2011, PROTECTING HIS YOUNG DAUGHTER DURING A SUDDEN STORM WHILE CAMPING. >> A LOT OF HURT. MISS HIM. YOU KNOW. I'D LIKE TO BE ABLE TO TALK TO HIM. HEATH: MATT WAGNER WASN'T EVEN BORN WHEN UNKNOWN ASSAILANTS SHOT AND KILLED HIS FATHER, SGT. LOUIS HENRY WAGNER, AS HE DROVE FROM THE ST. TAMMANY SHERIFF'S OFFICE IN 1978. >> GLAD TO COME EVERY YEAR TO FLOWER ON A WREATH FOR HIM AND JUST HONOR. HEATH: FOLSOM POLICE OFFICER RANDAL SPEARMAN LOST HIS LIFE IN 2003, COMING TO THE AID OF A WOMAN IN PERIL, HIS SON ANTONIO UNDERSTANDS THE PAIN OTHERS FEEL NOW. >> I SEE THE YOUNGER GENERATION'S KIDS, WHO WERE MY AGE, THAT ARE CRYING OVER THEIR LOST ONES. IT REMINDS ME THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY ARE DOWN NOW, BUT STRENGTH WILL COME THROUGH IT. EVERYTHING. HEATH: IN SLIDELL, YOU DON'T HAVE TO LOOK FAR TO SEE AND FEEL THE IMPACT OF SERGEANT EARL ALFRED, KILLED IN 1975, RESPONDING TO A ROBBERY CALL AT A LOCAL JEWELRY STORE. THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN ON THE SLIDELL POLICE FORCE. >> HE WAS SUCH A NICE PERSON, BECAUSE EVERYBODY THOUGHT THE WORLD OF HIM. I THOUGHT HE PROBABLY WOULD HAVE BEEN THE NEXT CHIEF, IF HE'D HAVE LIVED I THINK. ,HEATH: FOR THE OFFICERS HONORED, THEIR WATCH IS OVER, FOR THE REST OF THOSE IN IN SLIDELL, HEATH ALLEN, WDSU