Badge Number 2700


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Detective and US Marshall Amanda Haworth, a single mother, leaves behind one child, a thirteen year old son.
The community is coming together by offering donations to the Dade County Police Benevolent Association's Love Fund, which helps families of officers who either have been killed in the line of duty or have loved ones in crisis.
"We're all in mourning, we feel for the family," said PBA President Sgt. John Rivera. "It was their duty to serve and it's ours to remember."
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BY ELINOR J. BRECHER

Amanda was born Aug. 5, 1966, in Arlington, Mass. She was six months old when the family moved to Miami-Dade.
Her mother, Suzanne Miller, lives in Jacksonville; Robert and his wife, Diane, live in Miami Springs.
In addition to her son, parents and stepparents, Amanda Haworth is survived by sisters Holly Strine, Jennifer Ressler and stepsister Kristin Taveras.
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BY ELINOR J. BRECHER
The ``last call'' came long after darkness had fallen over a Miami Lakes cemetery on Monday.
A dispatcher announced over the police radio: ``All units stand by for a moment of silence.''
She then called out their names and badge numbers: Amanda Haworth, 2700. Roger Castillo, 1725.
Children and parents, a wife and a partner, siblings, grandparents, friends and fellow cops wept, ending the daylong rite of remembrance for the two Miami-Dade detectives who had lost their lives in the line of duty.
The two detectives were assigned to the career criminal unit of the department's Warrants Bureau. Thursday, the murder suspect they were trying to arrest shot and killed them.
Earlier in the day, as many as 9,000 mourners came to pay their respects at AmericanAirlines Arena, including the governor, a U.S. Senator, the county mayor, a Catholic archbishop, and law enforcement personnel from as far away as Chicago and Canada.
With church-like solemnity and military precision, with tears, prayers and the occasional chuckle the lost officers were eulogized in a ceremony that lasted nearly 3 ½ hours.
``They were special not only in the way they died, but because of how they lived.''
Austin said, simply: ``I love you, Mom.''
The day began at 11 a.m., when two black hearses two black stretch limousines flanked by motorcycle officers, led hundreds of police cars and motorcycles on a mournful journey to the arena.
Along the route, motorists got out of their cars and stood silently as the procession went by.
As they approached the arena, two riderless brown horses walked behind the two caskets.
Bagpipers and an honor guard led the flag-draped coffins into the arena, where pallbearers placed them on stands.
On a stage above them, the two officers' uniform caps sat atop pedestals, bracketed by sprays of red and white flowers.
In his invocation, the Rev. Walter T. Richardson, police chaplain, reminded listeners how dangerous police work can be. ``Nothing can explain the senselessness and untimeliness of this tragedy,'' he said. ``The threat is so real, the shadow of death is so pronounced that. . . even as we gather here, two officers lie dead in St. Petersburg,'' victims of a Monday morning shooting.
The day ended as it had begun. As the hearses left the arena, family members walked past the honor guard and rows of officers standing at attention. Dozens of police on motorcycles led the way, two by two with flashing blue and red lights, the black hearses following with the coffins.
At Vista Memorial Gardens, Police Director James K. Loftus -- who had cast his officers' work as a battle of good versus evil -- dropped to one knee and presented their coffin flags to Castillo's and Haworth's families. When the color guard on the roof of the mausoleum fired their 21-gun salute, sparks erupted from the rifles. Buglers played taps and the mourners left the cemetery.
For their final resting places, Amanda Haworth was buried alongside a grandparent; Roger Castillo was placed in the mausoleum.
Miami Herald reporters Julie Brown, James Burnett, Laura Figueroa, Kathleen McGrory, Carli Teproff and Luisa Yanez contributed to this report.

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I want to express my humblest thanks to
❤ღ❤ amorifera ❤ღ❤ for her tireless efforts to keep Amanda's pictures up to date. Thank you for taking all the pix of her resting place and all the honor you've shown her. God bless you and your family always...