Nick Graham ‘held the line’ against ‘unimaginable evil,’ Lakewood police chief says

By Erica Breunlin | The Colorado Sun

As police officers rolled a flag-draped casket carrying Nicholas “Nick” Graham’s body to the front of an Englewood church with a serenade of bagpipes and drums, his young son Peyton, trailing the casket in the arms of his mom, pointed up to a giant photo of his dad projected on a screen. 

A spitting image of his dad, the 1-year-old was the center of his world, colleagues and family members of Graham said as they honored the fallen Lakewood police officer during a Thursday morning memorial service at BRAVE Church. 

Graham, 33, was killed in a Nov. 5 shooting on a Regional Transportation District Bus in Lakewood. Thousands of people, mostly law enforcement officers, packed into the church to honor Graham where, for nearly two and a half hours, they remembered him as a dedicated police officer and a man who was much more than his badge. 

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