Support from community, law enforcement spreads for Nassau County deputy

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Josh Moyers was changeable during Friday greeting postulation stop

Deputy Josh Moyers, 35, joined the Nassau County Sheriff's Office successful 2015.

NASSAU COUNTY, Fla. – The household of Deputy Josh Moyers, the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office and the surrounding assemblage are asking for prayers and justice.

On Friday, Moyers was changeable during a postulation halt of a stolen minivan. It triggered a manhunt for Patrick McDowell.

The First Baptist Church of Yulee posted connected Facebook, saying: “Deputy Joshua Moyers has sat extracurricular our worship connected respective Sundays and has ever been a large young deputy...First Baptist joins successful supplication for Deputy Moyers, his fiancée, and his parents.”

It’s been an affectional time for Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper, and those who unrecorded successful the area.

“This is simply a precise tight-knit community, and we trust connected each other,” said Sam Baldwin, a resident. “Our officers ever support america safe, and it’s genuinely a calamity to perceive erstwhile thing similar this happens.

The calamity got the attraction of different instrumentality enforcement agencies, including the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis posted:

.@FLCaseyDeSantis and I are praying for the Nassau County Deputy Sheriff who was changeable and critically injured astatine a regular postulation stop.

The idiosyncratic liable volition beryllium brought to justness and the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office has the enactment of Florida successful this search.

— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) September 24, 2021

Rep. Val Demings, who represents Florida’s 10th District, besides shared good wishes with the family.

Praying for Nassau County Sheriff’s Deputy Josh Moyers, who was changeable successful enactment of work this greeting and is successful captious condition. Please support him, his fiancé and family, and the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office successful your prayers.

— Rep. Val Demings (@RepValDemings) September 24, 2021