{"id":14419,"date":"2021-08-23T15:33:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T19:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=14419"},"modified":"2021-08-23T15:33:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T19:33:57","slug":"pcso-mourns-the-loss-of-deputy-sheriff-christopher-broadhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/08\/23\/pcso-mourns-the-loss-of-deputy-sheriff-christopher-broadhead\/","title":{"rendered":"PCSO mourns the loss of Deputy Sheriff Christopher Broadhead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"(max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/christopher-broadhead-2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14420\" width=\"-48\" height=\"-72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/christopher-broadhead-2021.jpg 304w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/christopher-broadhead-2021-200x300.jpg 200w\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we inform you about the line-of-duty death of\u00a0<strong>Deputy Sheriff Christopher Broadhead<\/strong>, who was stricken with COVID-19 and has been in the hospital for several weeks. He succumbed to the illness earlier today, August 23, 2021.<br>\u00a0<br>Deputy Broadhead was 32 years old and became a deputy sheriff working in patrol in November 2011. Throughout his career, he was also a property crimes detective, robbery detective, and homicide detective. He was most recently assigned to the Southeast District, in the Lake Wales area of the county. He was a graduate of the University of Florida.<br>\u00a0<br>Chris was married to former Deputy Elisa (Ranze) Broadhead. Chris was a stepfather to Elisa\u2019s three children and together he and Elisa have two daughters, ages one and two.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>We are in the process of planning a Line of Duty funeral service with full law enforcement honors, and that information will be sent out as soon as possible.<br>\u00a0<br>Deputy Broadhead received many accolades throughout his 10-year career &#8211; he was awarded a Medal of Valor in 2013, several division and department commendations, a Sheriff&#8217;s Commendation, and Meritorious Service Medal in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we inform you about the line-of-duty death of\u00a0Deputy Sheriff Christopher Broadhead, who was stricken with COVID-19 and has been in the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[1061],"class_list":["post-14419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sheriffs-corner","tag-pcso-mourns-the-loss-of-deputy-sheriff-christopher-broadhead"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}