Hellertown Police Help Provide Officer's Final Escort

Members of the Hellertown Police Department had the distinction of from to Falk Funeral Home and Crematory on Main Street Tuesday.

As Hellertown Police Chief Robert Shupp told Borough Council Monday, this escort was to be Lasso's last, and was given by both the Hellertown and Freemansburg police departments.

Earlier in the day, local officers and volunteer firefighters participated in .

to allow staff to attend the memorial service in support of Patricia Tallarico, a borough employee and Lasso's mother-in-law.

Freemansburg and Hellertown are small boroughs in close proximity to one another, and Shupp told council that in the days since Lasso was killed in the line of duty, his department has reached out to help the Freemansburg police however it can.

The escort that accompanied Lasso's hearse arrived in Hellertown shortly before 1pm, and police briefly halted traffic along Main Street to allow it to proceed to the funeral home.

, after he responded to a disturbance on Washington Street in Freemansburg.

George Hitcho Jr., 46, has been charged in the slaying, which has .