Procession for deputy killed in Southern California mass shooting

Thousands of people stood along the route or pulled over along U.S. 101 Thursday as a long motorcade escorted the body of Sgt. Ron Helus some 25 miles (40 kilometers) from a hospital in Thousand Oaks to the coroner’s facility in the city of Ventura.

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Thu., Nov. 8, 2018

Firefighters salute from an overpass as a motorcade with the body of Ventura County Sheriff's Sgt. Ron Helus goes by Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, in Newbury Park, Calif. Helus was fatally shot while responding to a mass shooting at a country music bar in Southern California.

Marcio Jose Sanchez Associated Press
A law enforcement motorcade, providing an escort for a hearse carrying the body of Ventura County Sheriff's Sgt. Ron Helus, makes its way northbound on Highway 101 Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, in Newbury Park, Calif. Helus was fatally shot while responding to a mass shooting at a country music bar in Southern California.

Marcio Jose Sanchez Associated Press
A group of civilians, law enforcement and fire personnel, look on from an overpass as a motorcade with the body of Ventura County Sheriff's Sgt. Ron Helus passes by Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, in Newbury Park, Calif. Helus was fatally shot while responding to a mass shooting at a country music bar in Southern California.

Marcio Jose Sanchez Associated Press
People look on from an overpass as a motorcade with the body of Ventura County Sheriff's Sgt. Ron Helus passes by Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, in Newbury Park, Calif. Helus was fatally shot while responding to a mass shooting at a country music bar in Southern California.

Marcio Jose Sanchez Associated Press
Law enforcement and fire personnel salute from an overpass as a motorcade with the body of Ventura County Sheriff's Sgt. Ron Helus passes by Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, in Newbury Park, Calif. Helus was fatally shot while responding to a mass shooting at a country music bar in Southern California.

Marcio Jose Sanchez Associated Press
A law enforcement motorcade, providing an escort for a hearse carrying the body of Ventura County Sheriff's Sgt. Ron Helus, makes its way northbound on Highway 101 Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, in Newbury Park, Calif. Helus was fatally shot while responding to a mass shooting at a country music bar in Southern California.

Marcio Jose Sanchez Associated Press
Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff Armando Viera, center, consoles an unidentified woman on a freeway overpass after a motorcade with the body of Ventura County Sheriff's Sgt. Ron Helus went by Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, in Newbury Park, Calif. Helus was fatally shot while responding to a mass shooting at a country music bar in Southern California.

Marcio Jose Sanchez Associated Press