“He was my friend,” Sunshine Smith said to her son Stuart Cornelsen, 4, as they visited the site on Wednesday where Coeur d’Alene police Sgt. Greg Moore was shot Tuesday morning. Smith was a student at Lakes Middle School when Moore was a resource officer there. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka)

Reeling from the fatal shooting of a Coeur d’Alene police officer, the community expressed its heartache and paid tribute to the service of Sgt. Greg Moore in a range of gestures Wednesday. People left American flags, flowers and heartfelt notes at the scene of Tuesday’s shooting on a quiet residential street and at police headquarters across the street from the elementary school where Moore’s widow teaches third grade. They lined up by the hundreds at a coffee stand pledging to donate the day’s sales to the officer’s family, while hundreds more gave to a family fund that surpassed $66,000 in a little over a day. And they gathered in a city park in the evening to show their appreciation and solidarity with the police and emergency services community. Flags were lowered to half-staff across the region and at all state buildings in Idaho, and police placed black mourning bands over their badges/Scott Maben, SR. More here.

Question: If you've been part of the outpouring of community support for the late Sgt. Greg Moore or the Coeur d'Alene Police Department, can you describe what you've experienced?