Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Rip our dear brother ❤️

Sr. Officer
NYDC NYPD

January 2, 2020

Rip our dear brother ❤️

Corporal Avelino Herrera Jr.
NYDC NYPD

January 2, 2020

Rest in peace Deputy Sheriff Mull.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

November 27, 2019

Rest In Peace Brother LEO. Thank you for your sacrifice and service.

Officer Mike Robinson, (Ret)
Upland Police Dept. CA

February 10, 2018

Ernie you were a true friend that never held anything back. You spoke your mind. I didn’t know your for long when I started working at the Frigidaire now Electrolux on 3rd shift but your impact helped me through a lot of things in life. I will never forget the crazy nights we had at our job together. I miss you so much and wish I could talk with you again. Hopefully I will see you again one day when my journey is through here on earth.

William Bunn Jr

January 5, 2018

Rest in peace.

Lieutenant Ray Flores
NYPD (retired)

January 2, 2018

Remembering you today Ernie. I still miss you and think of you very often.

Vickie Midgett

January 2, 2016

Remembering you & thinking about your family!

Denise
Survivor of Trooper Calvin Taylor EOW 10-3-01

January 2, 2015

15 years-the pride you carried on your badge carries on......

Delisa

January 1, 2015

Amazing how 14 years have gone by, I still remember the call, still sucks. See ya when I get up there, thank you for watching out for me over these last 14 years.

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Commodore

January 3, 2014

I was thinking about my career as a police officer and the good things that have came with it. I thought about you my friend, the good times we had at work and away.

Sgt. D. A. Tyndall
Smithfield Police Department

March 28, 2013

hard to bekieve it has been 13 years. thank you for your service and all that you did to form the path of your two younger brothers. I think of you often and wish that we could have had more time, but your watch has ended and we must carry on. I salute you sir RIP

Ray Jefferson
Uncle

January 2, 2013

Hard to believe it has been 13 years , I think of you often and thank you for your service and the impressions that you made on so many people, especially your two younger brothers. Thhey are very proud of you and all that you did to form their future , they are both fine oficers and wear their badges with honor and great respect for you. RIP Uncle Ray

Ray Jefferson
Uncle

January 2, 2013

I will never forget the time that we spent together as teenagers, I have so many memories of you. My most favorite memory of you, was when we went to your grandmother's house and watched the Christmas parade....it seems like yesterday. I miss you and regret ever losing our closeness. I think of you often, but I know you are in a much better place. I love you.

Becky Peyton

August 12, 2012

Thanks for your services, Ernest.

David

February 23, 2012

Your heroism and service is honored today, the 12th anniversary of your death. Your memory lives and you continue to inspire. Thank you for your service to my home state and the birthplace of my son. My cherished son Larry Lasater was a fellow police officer murdered in the line of duty on April 24, 2005 while serving as a Pittsburg, CA police officer.

Time never diminishes respect and your memory will always be honored and revered.. I pray for solace for all those who love and miss you for I know both the pain and pride are forever. Brenda, you are in my heart's embrace today for surely losing a child has to be life's greatest sorrow. To Ernie's brothers who are now protecting and serving, I am sure Ernie is proud of you for continuing the legacy. You are all in my thoughts and prayers.

Rest In Peace

Phyllis Loya
Mom of fallen California Officer Larry Lasater, Pittsburg PD, eow 4/24/05

January 2, 2012

It is approaching 11 years since you left us. I still miss you so much and think of you often. Every year at this time I think about the moment when I learned of your passing. Your life has had an impact on so many people. You will forever be remembered and loved.

Vickie Midgett
former LMH-EMS

December 31, 2011

I wonder if you and Preston are enjoying some time on the mat....

Commodore

October 31, 2011

"It has been some time now my friend" 11 1/2 years has passed and yet you are still touching everyone's hearts. Close my eyes and see it like it were yesterday us playing football out in the yard or some kind of sport that kept us busy. Remembering you taking up Martial Arts with your brothers and you three started using me as a grappling dummy but I am glad that I got to be a part of that. Keep looking over them and everyone else like you have been doing my friend! " Always in my heart is where i keep ya!"

Tim Smith

August 4, 2011

I think of you often. It is hard to believe that it has been over 11 1/2 years. I know you were there to welcome another brother through the gates of Heaven last night. Continue to watch over all of us. Miss you!

Barbara Crumbacker
friend

August 2, 2011

I think of you often. It is hard to believe that it has been over 11 1/2 years. I know you were there to welcome another brother through the gates of Heaven last night. Continue to watch over all of us. Miss you!

Barbara Crumbacker
friend

August 2, 2011

Brother you are truly missed I still remember to day when I was told you were taken from us brother I know you are up in heaven walking the beat. Brother I truly miss my friend.

SSG William Clay
Greene County Deputy 1999-2001

June 14, 2011

Ernie,
It has been a little over 11 years now and it seems like yesterday that I come in and was told about your accident. Be assured that we are holding the beat down here while you watch over us from above

Major Doug Stocks
Greene County Sheriffs Office

May 31, 2011

Its been ten years now and I remember coming home and mom telling me the news like it was last week. I'm not here to write about that terrible day but rather to tell about some of the many good times I shared growing up with Ernie. We grew up in an old farm house in the middle of a field and our nearest neighbor was about a half a mile away so we had to entertain ourselves. Just a few of the many great memories that stick out in my mind are when Ernie had the great idea to catch tadpoles, raise them into frogs, then release them into dads garden because he said the frogs would eat the bugs so they wouldn't kill the plants. I couldn't have been anymore than eight years old and he was my big brother that knew everything so I followed along. Well, we dug a hole, put some gravel and rocks in the bottom, filled it with water and put in some tadpoles. The next day, we checked on out "great idea" only to find the hole was dried up because rocks and gravel don't hold water too well in a corn field. Or, when Ernie, William, and I tried to MAKE an in-ground pool in the yard with shovels and plastic. It sounded like a good idea at the time, but I think I was the only one that realized it wasn't a good idea to dig within twenty feet of a huge tree. We kept digging up root after root which is what cut the plastic after only one day of swimming, but it was a day I'll never forget.

More recently, the family began taking martial arts and Ernie seemed like a natural from the beginning. I had never seen him more passionate about anything. His life revolved around the sport and if he wasn't working of sleeping, he was grappling, watching UFC, buying training tapes, or looking up the next tournament to enter. Our martial arts school only had one little space heater and Ernie didn't care if it was twenty degrees out, or if it was 10:00 at night, he would ask me if I wanted to go grapple. Wheather I wanted to go or not, Ernie always had a way of talking people into anything so I always went. In 1997, Ernie and I went to Virginia for training seminars and even to West Virginia for a tournament in which he won first place in his division and I won second in mine. We really connected on those trips talking about everything from the past, present, future plans, and his career in law enforcement. I thought that was the coolest job in the world as he would tell me all his stories. I wanted to be in law enforcement since I was twelve years old and Ernie's enthusiastic stories just reassured me it was indeed what I wanted to do. I just wish I could have known these would be the last few years of his life. I would've told him how much I loved him, appriciated all he taught me growing up, and told him how proud I was to call him my brother. Since Ernie's death, I've talked to some of his co-workers, friends, and people that just met him a time or two, and I've learned the he truly was a remarkable person that left a lasting impression on alot of people.

After Ernie's death, both William and I pursued careers in law enforcement following in our brothers footsteps. I still use some of the tactics Ernie taught me on the two ride alongs I did with him while he was a police officer and I think about him everyday, especially at work. Nothing will ever bring him back but his pictures and memories will be with us forever. Ernie, thank you for all you did in your short life and the impact you had on mine, I love you.

Jimmie Hull
Little brother

January 5, 2010

Today is the tenth anniversary of my sons death. Those that say time heals all wounds probably have not had to look at their child laying in their casket.Well I can tell you time has not healed this mothers heart. I still have plenty of tears over losing Ernie. I miss him so much. I just wish I could hug him one more time and tell him how proud of him I am and that I love him.
To every person in law enforcement, please be careful as you perform your duties. I greatly appreciate your profession and have a great respect for you.

Brenda Hull
Mama

January 2, 2010