{"id":31957,"date":"2023-05-02T21:49:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T01:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=31957"},"modified":"2023-05-02T21:49:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T01:49:48","slug":"living-his-dream-mother-of-fallen-polk-county-deputy-accepts-awards-on-his-behalf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/05\/02\/living-his-dream-mother-of-fallen-polk-county-deputy-accepts-awards-on-his-behalf\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Living his dream\u2019: Mother of fallen Polk County deputy accepts awards on his behalf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Though he is not here to experience it, Shellie Lane finds solace in the fact her son\u2019s dreams are still alive, even if he is not.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cHe is still living his dream with all of the recognition he has gotten,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing. He deserves all the recognition he can get.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blane Lane, 21<\/a>, was killed by friendly fire<\/a> while executing an arrest warrant in Polk City in October 2022, according to his employer, the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seven months later, his mother, Shellie Lane, dreams of giving him a hug or answering a phone call from him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe was the most amazing full of life person that you could ever imagine. He would walk in the room and light it up and make everybody laugh. On your worst day, he made it better,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the 54th annual President\u2019s Roundtable Public Safety Awards, Lane was awarded \u201cSheriff Deputy of the Year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEver since he was a little boy that\u2019s all he\u2019s ever wanted to do is be a Polk County sheriff. He wanted to be the next Grady Judd. That was his idol, he loved Grady Judd,\u201d said Shellie Lane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Lane\u2019s funeral<\/a>, Judd promoted Lane to \u201chonorary sheriff\u201d for all eternity and last week, he was posthumously given the \u201cSheriff\u2019s citation\u201d by the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sheriff\u2019s Citation is the highest award given by the agency, in memory of members who died from injuries sustained in the line of duty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also at the President\u2019s Roundtable Public Safety Awards, Deputy Harodis Nunez was given the \u201cDistinguished Service Award.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authorities said a bulletproof vest saved his life<\/a> when he was shot in the chest by a suspect in a family disturbance case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs a testament to this deputy\u2019s professionalism as a law enforcement officer he kept his composure after the shooting recognizing the suspect had given up after shooting him in the chest,\u201d read the award presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Though he is not here to experience it, Shellie Lane finds solace in the fact her son\u2019s dreams are still alive, even if he is not. \u201cHe is still living… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31958,"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":[12,14],"tags":[4964],"class_list":["post-31957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-living-his-dream-mother-of-fallen-polk-county-deputy-accepts-awards-on-his-behalf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31957","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=31957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}