By Kevin Lavery, KWMU
St. Louis – A St. Louis city police officer killed last week in the line of duty was remembered Wednesday at a standing-room only funeral mass at the St. Louis Cathedral Basilica.
Twenty-four-year old policeman Nicholas Sloan had been on the city police force three years before he was killed last Friday during a drug arrest in north St. Louis.
At the service, Sloan was remembered as a man who looked upon his work as a privilege, and who eventually died doing what he thought was his part.
Sloan's partner, Officer Gabriel Keithley, was seriously injured in the incident, but was able to attend the Mass.
Keithley was given a standing ovation by hundreds of fellow police officers and attendees.
One of Sloan's sisters spoke of his infant son, and vowed to never let him forget the hero his father was.