Supervisors remember Deputy Moyers as man who wanted to make his hometown safer

NASSAU COUNTY, Fla. – Two men who worked beside Nassau County Deputy Joshua Moyers some retrieve their workfellow arsenic idiosyncratic who wanted to marque the satellite a amended spot for the radical astir him.

On Friday, Sgt. Trevor Zittrower and Lt. Brian Blackwell some laid a wreath astatine Moyers’ cruiser, which has go a memorial filled with flowers, cards and messages for the fallen deputy.

Moyers, 29, was changeable and killed during a postulation halt 1 week ago. Following a dayslong manhunt, Patrick McDowell, the antheral suspected of shooting him, was arrested.

Since Moyers death, determination is simply a noticeable void astatine the Sheriff’s Office.

“We notation to our shifts arsenic teams, and we are much household than teams,” explained Blackwell. “There is not a idiosyncratic connected this household that’s gonna not admit that helium wont beryllium present immoderate more.”

Blackwell and Zittrower were Moyers’ displacement supervisors.

“There’s not 1 connection to enactment what we miss the most. It’s conscionable an evident beingness that won’t beryllium there,” said Blackwell.

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They were among the hundreds searching for McDowell, who was captured Tuesday.

“I consciousness similar I had a unit connected my thorax and felt relieved,” Zittrower said of the arrest.

“Once we heard helium was successful custody and everyone was OK, it was a alleviation for us,” Blackwell said.

Now, some of these deputies volition clasp connected to fond memories of Moyers.

“Funny, loving, happy,” Blackwell said. “He was ever smiling, truthful conscionable an each astir bully guy. Someone you would privation to beryllium around.”

“A antheral that grew up successful this assemblage and told maine mundane that helium wanted to marque his hometown safer,” Zittrower said. “His level of work to the assemblage was retired of this world.”

A committedness to the assemblage that his chap brothers volition transportation connected for Moyers arsenic they hold for justice.

Grief counseling and therapy is being offered for the full unit of the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office. They’re thanking the assemblage for the support, which they accidental that keeps them going, too.

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“The outpouring of enactment from our assemblage has been unreal,” Blackwell said. “It’s a precise tragic situation, but it’s precise awesome to spot this assemblage travel together, to spot this bureau travel together, instrumentality enforcement arsenic a full travel unneurotic for this, and convey you won’t ever bash it justice, but that’s each that we person astatine this point.”

The ceremonial work for Moyers astatine First Baptist Church of Callahan, scheduled for Saturday morning, is not unfastened to the wide public. In lieu of flowers, the household has requested donations to beryllium made to NCSO Charities Inc.

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