Gov. DeSantis orders flags at half-staff for Deputy Joshua Moyers

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TALLAHASSEE – To grant the representation of Deputy Joshua Moyers, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has ordered American and authorities flags successful definite parts of Nassau County to beryllium flown astatine half-staff Saturday.

“I hereby nonstop the flags of the United States and the State of Florida to beryllium flown astatine half-staff astatine the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office successful Yulee, Florida, the Nassau County Courthouse successful Yulee, Florida and the City Hall of Hilliard, Florida, from sunrise to sunset connected Saturday, October 2, 2021,” reads a memorandum from DeSantis.

Moyers was changeable doubly during a postulation halt Friday, according to Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper. On Sunday, helium died of his injuries.

TIMELINE: Events pursuing shooting of Deputy Joshua Moyers, starring to apprehension of Patrick McDowell

The antheral accused of fatally shooting him, Patrick McDowell, surrendered Tuesday and was booked into the jail. On Wednesday, hundreds of instrumentality enforcement officers searched for evidence tied to the deputy’s killing.

Moyers, 29, was hired arsenic a Nassau County lawman successful 2015 and Leeper called him “a large guy.”

Leeper said Moyers was precocious engaged to beryllium married.

Moyers was a 2010 postgraduate of Hilliard Middle-Senior High School and received instrumentality enforcement grooming astatine St. Johns River State College. The Sheriff’s Office said Moyers spent 2 years with the county’s Explorer programme earlier helium was hired arsenic a deputy. He was fixed an grant successful 2018 for going supra and beyond the telephone of work connected a narcotics case.

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