A horse-drawn wagon will carry the body of a WakeMed police officer who recently died from a gunshot on the job to his funeral at a Raleigh church on Monday, WakeMed officials said.
The procession will temporarily shut down portions of Glenwood Avenue in the mid-morning, they said in a news release Friday.
Garner Police have said WakeMed Garner Healthplex officer Roger Smith, 59, was responding to a disturbance Saturday in the Emergency Department lobby when he struggled with Benji Martin Jr., 29. Both men were shot…