Slain Indiana officer remembered as focused on police work

FISHERS, Ind. (AP) — A younger Indiana police officer who was killed throughout an early morning visitors cease was remembered Saturday as a person centered on a profession in legislation enforcement.

Noah Shahnavaz, 24, an officer with the Elwood Police Division 50 miles (80 kilometers) northeast of Indianapolis, was shot within the head simply after 2 a.m. July 31, earlier than he may even get out of his patrol automobile.

“Noah destroyed any obstacles that acquired in his means,” his mom, Laurie Shahnavaz, stated in her eulogy. “He was singularly centered on changing into a police officer and at last achieved that dream in 2021.”

Dozens of legislation enforcement officers have been among the many greater than 1,300 individuals who attended the officer’s funeral at ITOWN Church within the officer’s suburban Indianapolis hometown of Fishers, with some going to an overflow room, WRTV-TV reported.

Following the funeral, a procession carried Shahnavaz’s physique previous the Elwood Police Division headquarters en path to the Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis.

Shahnavaz served within the U.S. Military for 5 years and was an Elwood police officer for 11 months earlier than his slaying.

State police arrested the accused gunman, Carl Boards II of Anderson, about half-hour after the killing. He has been charged with homicide, resisting legislation enforcement and illegal possession of a firearm by a critical violent felon.