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Saturday procession for slain DeKalb officer announced

Local law enforcement and fire personnel are asking the community to join them as they give a hero's welcome to a fallen officer who will make his final trip home.

He was shot and killed after a traffic stop in DeKalb County, Thursday. On Saturday, he will be making a final trip home.

Edgar Flores will receive a hero's welcome as his body makes the trip back to Baldwin, Georgia in Habersham County. 

In the roughly 24 hours since he died in the line of duty, police departments, sheriff's offices and fire departments along the route he will travel have coordinated a final salute as they gather along overpasses along the way.

According to the Habersham County Sheriff's Office, the procession will head along I-985 through Hall County into Habersham County where it becomes Highway 365.  The route continues along Duncan Bridge Road to Whitfield Funeral Home in Baldwin.

Flores and his family are expected to leave the DeKalb County Medical Examiner's Office at 10 a.m. and arrive in Habersham County around 11 a.m.

Tomorrow, many members of Habersham County's Emergency Services, Fire and Law Enforcement Agencies will have the honor of escorting the remains of Dekalb County PD Officer Edgar Flores and his family...

Departments along the way, including the Hall County Sheriff's Office, are welcoming the public to join them in honoring the fallen officer as he passes through their communities.

The 24-year-old officer was hired by the police department on May 8, 2017, and graduated from the police academy on Nov. 4, 2017.

Flores was going to turn 25 years old this weekend, said DeKalb County Police Chief James Conroy who described him as a man with a bright future ahead of him. 

“During that foot pursuit, the suspect produced a handgun and shot the officer. The officer was transported to an area hospital where he subsequently died of the injuries from the shooting,” DeKalb County Police Department Chief James Conroy said in a somber press conference. 

More officers responded to the Candler-McAfee neighborhood to look for the suspect. One was a K9 team. That K9 was shot and taken to a veterinary hospital.

Now, as a community mourns officer Flores' loss, it also holds out hope that 7-year-old Indi will pull through after being shot in the eye. The police K9 remains in critical condition and will likely lose an eye.

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