First Regular Session
Sixty-first General Assembly
LLS NO. R97@0797.01 MTJ
STATE OF COLORADO
BY SENATOR Hernandez;
also REPRESENTATIVE Mace.
ENGROSSED
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 97-35
MEMORIALIZING THE DEATH OF DENVER POLICE OFFICER
RON DEHERRERA.
WHEREAS, By the Will of Divine Providence, Denver
Police Officer Ron DeHerrera departed this life on April 1, 1997,
at the age of thirtytwo; and
WHEREAS, Officer DeHerrera was working only his second
shift as a Denver Police Officer on March 26, 1997, when his patrol
car was broadsided by a stolen car, mortally injuring him; and
WHEREAS, Officer DeHerrera graduated from the Denver
Police Academy on March 21, only eleven days before becoming the
fiftyseventh Denver police officer to give his life in the
line of duty; and
WHEREAS, Officer DeHerrera was planning on getting
married during the summer of 1997 and was completing graduate
studies when his life was abruptly cut short; and
WHEREAS, Officer DeHerrera left a fiancee, Patricia
Steffes DeHerrera, his mother, Jeanne Olguin, his father,
Frank DeHerrera, Jr., an aunt, Officer Angela Romero, his grandparents,
Frank and Jane DeHerrera, his siblings including a twin brother,
Donald DeHerrera, and many other loving relatives and friends
to carry on his memory; and
WHEREAS, Officer DeHerrera fell while serving the
people of Denver and of the State of Colorado, and his memory
deserves their gratitude; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixtyfirst
General Assembly of the State of Colorado, the House of Representatives
concurring herein:
That in the untimely passing of Officer Ron DeHerrera,
the people of Denver and of the State of Colorado have lost an
outstanding citizen and a devoted public servant and that we,
the members of the Sixtyfirst General Assembly, do hereby
extend our deep and heartfelt sympathy to the members of his family
and pay tribute to a man who served his city, county, and state
well and faithfully.
Be It Further Resolved, That copies of this Resolution be sent to Officer DeHerrera's fiancee, his mother and father, his aunt, Angela Romero, his grandparents, and his twin brother, as well as to Denver Police Chief David Michaud.