More than a hundred emergency service vehicles drove from Roanoke to Mt. Airy on the afternoon of Monday June 1, as part of a funeral procession that included a hearse carrying the body of Deputy Logan Utt. The processional included motorcycles, ambulances, firetrucks and many, many police cruisers all with lights flashing, as they progressed down interstate 81 before merging onto I-77. Along the way, overpasses in Christiansburg, Dubin and several other communities were festooned with huge American Flags held aloft by ladder trucks supplied by local fire departments.
The processional diverged from Interstate 77 at Exit 8 and merged onto Route 52 to head down the mountain through Cana, where Deputy Utt lived and ultimately died in a shooting incident on the evening of Friday May 29.
Those who wished to offer their condolences for the fallen officer lined the roadways throughout the journey from Roanoke to Mt. Airy but nowhere was the outpouring of support more evident than in Utt’s hometown of Cana. Hundreds lined the Fancy Gap Highway running through Cana, many of whom held signs showing support for Utt or law enforcement in general…