Category: police killed edmonton

Slain Officers’ Families Issue Statements Thanking Public for Support

The families of two Edmonton police officers fatally shot earlier this month have issued statements thanking the public for their support. The statements from the families of Const. Brett Ryan and Const. Travis Jordan, released through the Edmonton Police Service, came on the eve of a regimental funeral for the officers Monday at Rogers Place…


Procession for Edmonton Police Officers Shot and Killed Responding to Call

Dozens of police cruisers and emergency vehicles lined streets in Edmonton as hearses took the bodies of two slain city officers from a medical examiner’s office to a funeral home. Two helicopters circled the sky and officers and civilians, some wearing blue ribbons and scarves, stood along the five-kilometre procession route. Family members and colleagues…


Funeral for Two Officers Shot and Killed in Edmonton Scheduled for Next Week

Police say a regimental funeral has been scheduled for two Edmonton officers who were shot and killed in the line of duty last week. The funeral for Travis Jordan, who was 35, and Brett Ryan, 30, is to be held March 27 at Rogers Place, the home arena for the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League. Police say the constables were responding to a…


Slain Officers’ Families Will Get $100,000 From Heroes’ Fund, Alberta Premier Says

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the families of two Edmonton police officers who were fatally shot this week will each receive $100,000 from the province’s Heroes’ Fund. Smith made the announcement Saturday during her weekly provincewide radio program while addressing the deaths of Const. Brett Ryan and Const. Travis Jordan. The officers were gunned down…


People Honouring Two Slain Edmonton Police Officers Gunned Down Responding to a Call

People in Edmonton and across Canada are paying tribute to two city police officers who were fatally shot while responding to a domestic violence call. Constables Brett Ryan and Travis Jordan were gunned down early Thursday morning after entering an apartment building. A police source says the shooter was a 16-year-old boy who also shot…


Father-to-Be and ‘Snow Angel’: Edmonton Officers Shot and Killed on Duty Remembered

One of the police officers killed in Edmonton was about to be a father for the first time and the other was called a “snow angel” for going beyond the call of duty to help people. Const. Brett Ryan, 30, and Const. Travis Jordan, 35, were shot and killed responding to a domestic violence call…