Ogden Police Department

OGDEN -- The search for a new Ogden police chief will probably take a little longer than city officials expected.

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OGDEN -- It begins with a frantic call for help from a police officer identified as Whiskey Seven.

His voice is tinged with urgency and desperation at the start of dispatch tapes from a Jan. 4 shooting that killed Ogden Officer Jared Francom and wounded five other officers.

"We've got shots fired," Whiskey Seven shouts into his police radio. "We've got officers hit. I need medical. I need additional units."

OGDEN -- Next time, he may want to try using a resume.

Kenneth Nereim, 27, at Ogden High School was found by an Ogden police officer next to a fresh graffiti-tagged wall and holding a can of spray paint around 3 a.m. Saturday, according to a post on the police department's Facebook page.

OGDEN -- One officer from the shooting on Jackson Avenue is still in the hospital and a donation drive is coming up to help his family.

Ogden Police Officer Kasey Burrell is expected to remain in the hospital for "many more weeks and will require further surgery and care," according to a Facebook page set up about the drive.

OGDEN -- Weber State Athletics has partnered with Swire Coca-Cola of Ogden to offer complimentary tickets to all public safety officials and their families to this week's Weber State men's basketball home games.

All public safety officials with a valid ID will receive up to four complimentary tickets to Thursday night's game against Montana State and Saturday's night game with Montana. Both games begin at 7:00 p.m. at the Dee Events Center.

Present a valid ID at the ticket office at the Dee Events Center.

OGDEN -- Firefighters are lining both sides of Washington Boulevard, south of 25th Street, to honor Ogden police officer Jared Francom, whose funeral procession will pass along that route.

Two Ogden Fire Department ladder trucks have used their ladders to form an arch over the street, with an American flag hanging from the ladders.

Bob Ramos, 87, a veteran of World War II, Korea and Vietnam, was one of the first people along Washington Boulevard. He became emotional talking about the officers.

"Its like a GI going to the front," he said of the police officers' work. "You don't know if you're going to come back."