Funeral Monday for fallen Chicago police officer Enrique Martinez
CHICAGO (CBS) —The funeral service for fallen Chicago police officer Enrique Martinez will be held Monday morning.
The funeral service for Martinez will happen at 10 a.m.
A procession is expected to leave Blake-Lamb Funeral Home around 9:15 a.m. and start eastbound down 103rd Street to Western Avenue. It'll then head northbound on Western to 77th Street. It'll continue westbound on 77th to Saint Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel.
After the funeral mass on Monday, the procession will travel from the chapel to Beverly Cemetery. Ald. Matthew Oshea (19th) has sent a notice to neighbors to line the procession route, honor Officer Martinez, and show support for his family and fellow officers.
This comes after Family and friends said their goodbyes Sunday afternoon during the visitation for Martinez, 26, who was shot and killed during a traffic stop near 80th and Ingleside on Nov. 4.
"He was proud to serve this city. He was proud to be American," said Maria Marmolejo of the Chicago Police Memorial Foundation. "Let's remember that."
The passion that Officer Martinez brought to his job… was certainly on the minds of many who came out to honor him Sunday. A steady stream of mourners turned out at the Blake-Lamb Funeral Home at 103rd Street and Cicero Avenue in Oak Lawn.
A steady stream of mourners filed into the Blake-Lamb funeral home in Oak Lawn. Well after the sunset, and after the temperature dropped, the foot traffic did not falter.
Inside the funeral home, officers pray over his casket while extending condolences to relatives.
Police said Darion McMillian, 23, shot and killed Martinez and the driver of the car McMillian was in during a traffic stop in the East Chatham neighborhood on Monday, Nov. 4.
The loss served as a stark reminder of the danger the men and women of the Chicago Police Department face each and every day on the job.
"Yet another young officer lost far too soon, who was trying to do right by this city and its citizens," said Chicago Fraternal of Police Lodge 7 President John Catanzara.
Sandra Wortham knows all too well about the heartache families cope with after losing a loved one on the job. She is president of the Chicago Police Memorial Foundation, which provides support to families of officers killed in the line of duty.
Wortham also lost her brother, Chicago Police Officer Thomas Wortham IV, back in 2010—when he was gunned down outside his parents' home.
"It's nice to offer thoughts and prayers," Wortham said. "To me, what's more meaningful is to offer work—on behalf of our fallen, our Gold Star families, and our members who keep working—so we don't have to keep seeing this."
Martinez is the second officer in the Chicago Police Department to be killed in the line of duty this year. He was engaged to be married and would have marked three years on the force next month.
Retired Chicago Police Chief of Detectives Eugene Roy said the crisis of violence in Chicago has been getting steadily worse.
"It's like Chicago is suffering from a form of cancer. It started off mildly enough, but now it's grown into a full-blossomed disease," Roy said, "and it's taking the lives of our citizens, school kids, and even police officers.
Catanzara agreed with Roy.
"These days and these speeches are becoming far too frequent, to say the least, and hopefully, we can take a look at some of the root causes and try and steer a different course—before we end up with 650 names on our wall sooner rather than later," he said. "But something's got to give."
Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson will not attend the funeral service at the request of Martinez's family.
CBS News Chicago will cover the procession and the services from outside the chapel, as media is not allowed inside the church.
You can watch the funeral coverage starting at 9 a.m. on CBS News Chicago. The Chicago Police Department plans to stream the services on their social media platforms.