Yarmouth Officer Sean Gannon posthumously promoted to sergeant

YARMOUTH, Mass. — The Yarmouth Police Department has posthumously promoted a police officer to sergeant after he was shot and killed last week.

Sergeant Sean Gannon, 32, was shot and killed Thursday while he and other officers were attempting to serve a warrant on a number of firearms violations to a suspect inside a Barnstable home.

“Sean was a wonderful, wonderful young man,” Yarmouth Police Chief Frank Frederickson said. “I’m not just saying that. He, just, the sky was the limit.”

K-9 Nero, Gannon's partner was also shot, but is recovering at a veterinary hospital on Cape Cod.
Thousands of people, including law enforcement officials from across the country, were in Yarmouth

Tuesday for Gannon's wake, and are on hand for his funeral Wednesday morning.
Barnstable and Yarmouth police officers have been keeping watch over Gannon's body since he was killed.

That continued Tuesday night when an honor guard remained at the church, and will remain until the start of his funeral mass Wednesday morning.

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