Deputy Ned P. Byrd, age 48, of Raleigh, North Carolina passed away while in the line of duty with the Wake County Sheriff's Office.
Deputy Byrd had served in the sheriff's department for 13 years as a detention officer and, most recently, a K9 officer. He lived his life to the fullest, he was helpful, kind, and very much loved. Ned was a friend to all, and family to many. He was the strongest smartest big brother one could ask for. He has left this world too soon.
Ned is survived by his K9 partner Sasha; his sister and her husband of Kiln, MS; four nephews; and several aunts, uncles, and cousins.
Deputy Byrd was preceded in death by his parents Nezzar Patrick Byrd and Sharlene Penny Byrd; and his brother Matthew Byrd.
A Funeral Service for Deputy Byrd will be held on Friday, August 19, 2022 at 11:00am at Providence Baptist Church, 6339 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh. If you are planning on attending, please arrive by 10:30am due to closure of Glenwood Avenue. The family will receive visitors Thursday, August 18, 2022 from 3:00 pm - 8:00 pm at Mitchell Funeral Home, 7209 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh. Pallbearers and Honorary Pallbearers will be his Wake County Sheriff K9 Unit family.
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Credit: "Committed to serving this county": Slain Wake deputy laid to rest
By Charles Duncan Raleigh
PUBLISHED 1:12 PM ET Aug. 19, 2022
RALEIGH, N.C. — Hundreds of officers and deputies from across North Carolina lined a North Raleigh church parking lot Friday, standing at attention and saluting as the body of slain Wake County Sheriff's Office Deputy Ned Byrd arrived for his funeral.
Deputy Byrd, 48, died the night of August 11, shot and killed on a sparsely populated road in southern Wake County. After a weeklong investigation, one man is in Wake County jail, charged with murder. Another remains in federal custody in Forsyth County, but the Wake district attorney expects to charge him in the killing as well.
"On that night, when I got to the scene, kneeled down beside him, promised him that we will find those responsible for what happened to him that night," Sheriff Gerald Baker said at the funeral, with Byrd's casket draped in an American flag and a brown Jiu Jitsu belt before him.
"Ned was committed to serving this county," he said. "It didn't matter what the hours were, it didn't matter what the assignment was."
Police shut down Glenwood Avenue in North Raleigh as a procession brought Byrd's body to Providence Baptist Church. Dozens of officers on motorcycles and a single officer walking the fallen deputy's K9 partner Sasha led the horse-drawn caisson to the funeral.
Friends and family remembered Byrd for his loyalty, generosity and strength, mental and physical. He was remembered for being proud of his work, and his love of Jiu Jitsu, mountain biking and CrossFit.
"Ned was the kind of man who made a friend everywhere, whether you wanted him to be or not," Byrd's cousin said at the funeral.
"So many people here have biked, gone on a run, did a bunch of sit-ups or pushups, or rolled around on a Jiu Jitsu mat because of him," she said. "Whether you wanted to or not."
"Nothing seems the same," but she said the Wake County Sheriff's Office has surrounded them with support. "I did not know a heart could be torn in two and still be so full at one time."
Other state and county officials joined the family and the hundreds of officers for the funeral Friday.
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(Deputy Byrd's Memorial was originally created on August 11, 2022, as well as sponsored by me. Apparently on August 19, 2022 somehow Contributor 47358293 took my Memorial information away as well as my pictures, credits and Management without my consent. My original Memorial was different than what is now on the Memorial as of 22 August 2022 when I came to add to the Memorial I originally made only to find, my information had been changed and I no longer was Manager of the Memorial.) Request made to Contributor and to F.A.G. for answer as to what happened.
Deputy Byrd had served in the sheriff's department for 13 years as a detention officer and, most recently, a K9 officer. He lived his life to the fullest, he was helpful, kind, and very much loved. Ned was a friend to all, and family to many. He was the strongest smartest big brother one could ask for. He has left this world too soon.
Ned is survived by his K9 partner Sasha; his sister and her husband of Kiln, MS; four nephews; and several aunts, uncles, and cousins.
Deputy Byrd was preceded in death by his parents Nezzar Patrick Byrd and Sharlene Penny Byrd; and his brother Matthew Byrd.
A Funeral Service for Deputy Byrd will be held on Friday, August 19, 2022 at 11:00am at Providence Baptist Church, 6339 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh. If you are planning on attending, please arrive by 10:30am due to closure of Glenwood Avenue. The family will receive visitors Thursday, August 18, 2022 from 3:00 pm - 8:00 pm at Mitchell Funeral Home, 7209 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh. Pallbearers and Honorary Pallbearers will be his Wake County Sheriff K9 Unit family.
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Credit: "Committed to serving this county": Slain Wake deputy laid to rest
By Charles Duncan Raleigh
PUBLISHED 1:12 PM ET Aug. 19, 2022
RALEIGH, N.C. — Hundreds of officers and deputies from across North Carolina lined a North Raleigh church parking lot Friday, standing at attention and saluting as the body of slain Wake County Sheriff's Office Deputy Ned Byrd arrived for his funeral.
Deputy Byrd, 48, died the night of August 11, shot and killed on a sparsely populated road in southern Wake County. After a weeklong investigation, one man is in Wake County jail, charged with murder. Another remains in federal custody in Forsyth County, but the Wake district attorney expects to charge him in the killing as well.
"On that night, when I got to the scene, kneeled down beside him, promised him that we will find those responsible for what happened to him that night," Sheriff Gerald Baker said at the funeral, with Byrd's casket draped in an American flag and a brown Jiu Jitsu belt before him.
"Ned was committed to serving this county," he said. "It didn't matter what the hours were, it didn't matter what the assignment was."
Police shut down Glenwood Avenue in North Raleigh as a procession brought Byrd's body to Providence Baptist Church. Dozens of officers on motorcycles and a single officer walking the fallen deputy's K9 partner Sasha led the horse-drawn caisson to the funeral.
Friends and family remembered Byrd for his loyalty, generosity and strength, mental and physical. He was remembered for being proud of his work, and his love of Jiu Jitsu, mountain biking and CrossFit.
"Ned was the kind of man who made a friend everywhere, whether you wanted him to be or not," Byrd's cousin said at the funeral.
"So many people here have biked, gone on a run, did a bunch of sit-ups or pushups, or rolled around on a Jiu Jitsu mat because of him," she said. "Whether you wanted to or not."
"Nothing seems the same," but she said the Wake County Sheriff's Office has surrounded them with support. "I did not know a heart could be torn in two and still be so full at one time."
Other state and county officials joined the family and the hundreds of officers for the funeral Friday.
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(Deputy Byrd's Memorial was originally created on August 11, 2022, as well as sponsored by me. Apparently on August 19, 2022 somehow Contributor 47358293 took my Memorial information away as well as my pictures, credits and Management without my consent. My original Memorial was different than what is now on the Memorial as of 22 August 2022 when I came to add to the Memorial I originally made only to find, my information had been changed and I no longer was Manager of the Memorial.) Request made to Contributor and to F.A.G. for answer as to what happened.
Deputy Ned P. Byrd, age 48, of Raleigh, North Carolina passed away while in the line of duty with the Wake County Sheriff's Office.
Deputy Byrd had served in the sheriff's department for 13 years as a detention officer and, most recently, a K9 officer. He lived his life to the fullest, he was helpful, kind, and very much loved. Ned was a friend to all, and family to many. He was the strongest smartest big brother one could ask for. He has left this world too soon.
Ned is survived by his K9 partner Sasha; his sister and her husband of Kiln, MS; four nephews; and several aunts, uncles, and cousins.
Deputy Byrd was preceded in death by his parents Nezzar Patrick Byrd and Sharlene Penny Byrd; and his brother Matthew Byrd.
A Funeral Service for Deputy Byrd will be held on Friday, August 19, 2022 at 11:00am at Providence Baptist Church, 6339 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh. If you are planning on attending, please arrive by 10:30am due to closure of Glenwood Avenue. The family will receive visitors Thursday, August 18, 2022 from 3:00 pm - 8:00 pm at Mitchell Funeral Home, 7209 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh. Pallbearers and Honorary Pallbearers will be his Wake County Sheriff K9 Unit family.
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Credit: "Committed to serving this county": Slain Wake deputy laid to rest
By Charles Duncan Raleigh
PUBLISHED 1:12 PM ET Aug. 19, 2022
RALEIGH, N.C. — Hundreds of officers and deputies from across North Carolina lined a North Raleigh church parking lot Friday, standing at attention and saluting as the body of slain Wake County Sheriff's Office Deputy Ned Byrd arrived for his funeral.
Deputy Byrd, 48, died the night of August 11, shot and killed on a sparsely populated road in southern Wake County. After a weeklong investigation, one man is in Wake County jail, charged with murder. Another remains in federal custody in Forsyth County, but the Wake district attorney expects to charge him in the killing as well.
"On that night, when I got to the scene, kneeled down beside him, promised him that we will find those responsible for what happened to him that night," Sheriff Gerald Baker said at the funeral, with Byrd's casket draped in an American flag and a brown Jiu Jitsu belt before him.
"Ned was committed to serving this county," he said. "It didn't matter what the hours were, it didn't matter what the assignment was."
Police shut down Glenwood Avenue in North Raleigh as a procession brought Byrd's body to Providence Baptist Church. Dozens of officers on motorcycles and a single officer walking the fallen deputy's K9 partner Sasha led the horse-drawn caisson to the funeral.
Friends and family remembered Byrd for his loyalty, generosity and strength, mental and physical. He was remembered for being proud of his work, and his love of Jiu Jitsu, mountain biking and CrossFit.
"Ned was the kind of man who made a friend everywhere, whether you wanted him to be or not," Byrd's cousin said at the funeral.
"So many people here have biked, gone on a run, did a bunch of sit-ups or pushups, or rolled around on a Jiu Jitsu mat because of him," she said. "Whether you wanted to or not."
"Nothing seems the same," but she said the Wake County Sheriff's Office has surrounded them with support. "I did not know a heart could be torn in two and still be so full at one time."
Other state and county officials joined the family and the hundreds of officers for the funeral Friday.
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(Deputy Byrd's Memorial was originally created on August 11, 2022, as well as sponsored by me. Apparently on August 19, 2022 somehow Contributor 47358293 took my Memorial information away as well as my pictures, credits and Management without my consent. My original Memorial was different than what is now on the Memorial as of 22 August 2022 when I came to add to the Memorial I originally made only to find, my information had been changed and I no longer was Manager of the Memorial.) Request made to Contributor and to F.A.G. for answer as to what happened.
Deputy Byrd had served in the sheriff's department for 13 years as a detention officer and, most recently, a K9 officer. He lived his life to the fullest, he was helpful, kind, and very much loved. Ned was a friend to all, and family to many. He was the strongest smartest big brother one could ask for. He has left this world too soon.
Ned is survived by his K9 partner Sasha; his sister and her husband of Kiln, MS; four nephews; and several aunts, uncles, and cousins.
Deputy Byrd was preceded in death by his parents Nezzar Patrick Byrd and Sharlene Penny Byrd; and his brother Matthew Byrd.
A Funeral Service for Deputy Byrd will be held on Friday, August 19, 2022 at 11:00am at Providence Baptist Church, 6339 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh. If you are planning on attending, please arrive by 10:30am due to closure of Glenwood Avenue. The family will receive visitors Thursday, August 18, 2022 from 3:00 pm - 8:00 pm at Mitchell Funeral Home, 7209 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh. Pallbearers and Honorary Pallbearers will be his Wake County Sheriff K9 Unit family.
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Credit: "Committed to serving this county": Slain Wake deputy laid to rest
By Charles Duncan Raleigh
PUBLISHED 1:12 PM ET Aug. 19, 2022
RALEIGH, N.C. — Hundreds of officers and deputies from across North Carolina lined a North Raleigh church parking lot Friday, standing at attention and saluting as the body of slain Wake County Sheriff's Office Deputy Ned Byrd arrived for his funeral.
Deputy Byrd, 48, died the night of August 11, shot and killed on a sparsely populated road in southern Wake County. After a weeklong investigation, one man is in Wake County jail, charged with murder. Another remains in federal custody in Forsyth County, but the Wake district attorney expects to charge him in the killing as well.
"On that night, when I got to the scene, kneeled down beside him, promised him that we will find those responsible for what happened to him that night," Sheriff Gerald Baker said at the funeral, with Byrd's casket draped in an American flag and a brown Jiu Jitsu belt before him.
"Ned was committed to serving this county," he said. "It didn't matter what the hours were, it didn't matter what the assignment was."
Police shut down Glenwood Avenue in North Raleigh as a procession brought Byrd's body to Providence Baptist Church. Dozens of officers on motorcycles and a single officer walking the fallen deputy's K9 partner Sasha led the horse-drawn caisson to the funeral.
Friends and family remembered Byrd for his loyalty, generosity and strength, mental and physical. He was remembered for being proud of his work, and his love of Jiu Jitsu, mountain biking and CrossFit.
"Ned was the kind of man who made a friend everywhere, whether you wanted him to be or not," Byrd's cousin said at the funeral.
"So many people here have biked, gone on a run, did a bunch of sit-ups or pushups, or rolled around on a Jiu Jitsu mat because of him," she said. "Whether you wanted to or not."
"Nothing seems the same," but she said the Wake County Sheriff's Office has surrounded them with support. "I did not know a heart could be torn in two and still be so full at one time."
Other state and county officials joined the family and the hundreds of officers for the funeral Friday.
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(Deputy Byrd's Memorial was originally created on August 11, 2022, as well as sponsored by me. Apparently on August 19, 2022 somehow Contributor 47358293 took my Memorial information away as well as my pictures, credits and Management without my consent. My original Memorial was different than what is now on the Memorial as of 22 August 2022 when I came to add to the Memorial I originally made only to find, my information had been changed and I no longer was Manager of the Memorial.) Request made to Contributor and to F.A.G. for answer as to what happened.
