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Annual Peace Officers Memorial overshadowed by murder-suicide
Family members of slain Ceres Police Sgt. Howard Stevenson
Family members of slain Ceres Police Sgt. Howard Stevenson attended last week’s Peace Officers Memorial service at Lakewood. Left to right are Stevenson’s widow Kathy, sister Carmen, and his mother Phyllis Stevenson. Daughter Mikaela and children attended. - photo by Jeff Benziger
Stanislaus County law enforcement officers came together Wednesday morning at Lakewood Funeral Home – like they do every May – for the Peace Officers Memorial ceremony but were still reeling from one of their own doing the unthinkable: being a casualty of a murder-suicide.