Motorcade transports fallen officer home to Habersham County

BALDWIN — A motorcade that stretched for miles escorted the body of fallen DeKalb County Police Officer Edgar Isidro Flores to Habersham County Saturday morning.

Officers from the Habersham County Sheriff’s Office, DeKalb County Police Department, Baldwin Police, Hall County Sheriff’s Office, Avondale Estates Police Department, Cornelia Police Department and many others, as well as other branches of public safety and the towing industry, escorted the hearse transporting Flores’ body from DeKalb County to Whitfield Funeral Home in Baldwin.

Flores, 24, is a 2012 graduate of Habersham Central High School and formerly worked at Jaemor Farms in Alto.

Funeral arrangements have not been announced yet.

Watch for more AccessWDUN coverage about Officer Flores.

The motorcade for Officer Edgar Flores makes its way up Ga. 365 near Lula. (Photo by Lindsey London)

The hearse transporting Officer Edgar Flores passes by his former place of employment, Jaemor Farms. (Photo by Lindsey London)

The motorcade for Officer Edgar Flores makes its way along Industrial Park Road near Baldwin.

The motorcade takes the final curve before arriving at Whitfield Funeral Home in Baldwin.

Officers assemble in front of the funeral home.

People line a road in Hall County to pay their respects to the fallen officer. (Courtesy Gainesville Police Department)

The motorcade makes its way through Hall county. Note traffic heading in the opposite direction that has stopped as the motorcade passes. (Courtesy Gainesville Police Department)

A salute from a Gainesville Fire Department ladder truck on a bridge over I-985. (Courtesy Gainesville Police Department)

Co-workers of Officer Edgar Flores wait outside the funeral home. (Photo by Lindsey London)

Co-workers of Officer Edgar Flores reflect as they wait for him to be taken into the funeral home. (Photo by Lindsey London)

Public safety vehicles fill both lanes and both shoulders of Industrial Boulevard as Officer Edgar Flores is brought back to his home county.

The end of the motorcade makes its way to the funeral home.

An ambulance from AMR DeKalb County and a Hall County Sheriff's Office patrol car are parked in front of the funeral home upon Officer Edgar Flores' arrival.

Emergency vehicles fill the lanes and shoulders of Industrial Boulevard in Baldwin as part of the motorcade to bring Officer Edgar Flores home to Habersham County.

People line Ga. 365 in front of Jaemor Farms, former employer of Officer Edgar Flores as the hearse transporting him passes. (Photo by Lindsey London)

Hall County Fire Services personnel and apparatus line an overpass along Interstate 985 as the motorcade passes. (Photo from Hall County Fire Services)

Hall County Fire Services personnel pay tribute to Officer Edgar Flores as the motorcade passes under the overhead bridge. (Photo from Hall County Fire Services)

Moisture in the air is pierced by a sea of blue lights in the funeral home parking lot after the motorcade's arrival.

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