Drive-through visitation for slain Overland Park police officer draws hundreds
Law enforcement, first responders, friends and members of the community stopped to show their respect to the family of Overland Park Officer Mike Mosher during a drive-through visitation Tuesday afternoon.
The officer’s hearse traveled from the Overland Park Chapel to the Overland Park Convention Center, where a long line of vehicles waited to greet the family, pulling up one by one in front of the flag-covered casket.
Mosher, a 14 1/2-year veteran of the Overland Park Police Department, died May 3 in a shootout with a suspect. The shooting occurred after Mosher came across a possible hit-and-run crash and was involved in a confrontation with the driver. The suspect, Phillip Carney, 38, also died.
Mosher, 37, was the first Overland Park officer killed since Officer Deanna Rose was slain in January 1985.
A private funeral for Mosher will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday inside the Overland Park Convention Center. It will be open to family, friends and members of the Overland Park Police Department.
A walking procession, which will be open to the public, will take place after the funeral. The procession will leave the convention center and head west to the Johnson County Funeral Chapel and Memorial Gardens, where a graveside ceremony will be held for family and friends.
