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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.