APPLETON, WI (WTAQ) – The streets of downtown Appleton were filled with hundreds of community members ready to pay their respects to an Appleton Firefighter who was shot and killed in the line of duty Wednesday evening.
The body of the firefighter arrived in Appleton shortly before 1:00. The body was taken to the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office Wednesday evening.
The body of a firefighter killed in a shooting last night returned to Appleton in a procession this afternoon.
The procession route traveled east along College Avenue through downtown Appleton, turned north on Drew Street, past Fire Station 1, then west on Hancock Street and south on Oneida Street to Brettschneider-Trettin-Nickel Funeral Chapel.
Law Enforcement vehicles from agencies in Outagamie County and nearby participated in the five-minute-long procession.
