Pope County Deputy Josh Owen, 44, who was shot and killed while working a week ago, was laid to rest Saturday.

Deputy Owen, who was on duty on his 44th birthday last Saturday, died after being taken to the hospital in critical condition, said the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA).

On Wednesday, the BCA released the name of the suspect and the two other officers injured in the incident. A spokesperson for the BCA said that Pope County Deputy Brody Merrill was hit once in the chest and Starbuck Officer Alex Olson was hit in the ankle.

Deputy Owen was responding to a domestic call in Cyrus around 7:30 p.m. when Bryan Nygard, the man inside the home, opened fire, killing Deputy Owen and injuring two other officers. They fired back, killing Nygard.

The Pope County Sheriff’s Office says Owen has been with the department for nearly 12 years and “had a heart as big as his stature.” He leaves behind a wife and son.

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A procession for Deputy Owen was held on Monday shortly after 8:30 a.m. A long line of law enforcement vehicles could be seen in procession leaving the Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office in Ramsey, Minnesota to escort the body of Deputy Josh Owen back to Pope County.

A flag was flown in honor of Deputy Owen, and community members also came to show support.

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“Isn’t it a blessing that this building can’t even hold the love we have for Josh?” Pope County Chief Deputy Nathan Brecht began.

Deputy Josh Owen was known to his Pope County law enforcement family as ‘Josh O’, “because we have a couple of Josh’s and ‘Josh O’ just kind of stuck,” Chief Deputy Brecht shared.

Family at home, in law enforcement and the military, would tell you, Josh Owen was an officer — and a person — that touched everyone he met.

“Together we spent 22 months deployed, 16 of those months in Iraq,” Minnesota National Guard Lieutenant Col. John Anderson shared.

Lt. Col. Anderson told a story from that early 2000s deployment when he was leading a platoon, that Owen was on, through a dangerous convoy escort mission in the dead of night.

“Our platoon became engaged by intense small-arms fire,” he said, adding that the firefight eventually halted the convoy.

“So Josh went back through the kill zone, and determined the truck had crashed, trapping the driver inside,” Anderson continued.

Then, a few soldiers led by Owen worked to free the driver and stabilize him, saving his life, Anderson said.

“This is just one of the less violent examples from Iraq where Josh lived up to the definition of a hero, and I understood from this point forward, again, ‘always pick Josh,'” he continued referring back to advice he was given earlier on when Owen was placed on his platoon.

In turn, Anderson said Owen always chose his wife, Shannon.

“Most guys on the platoon would’ve gotten crap for showing this much love, but not Josh,” Anderson recalled. “Everybody understood, he’s in love with Shannon, and you don’t mess with a guy that in love.”

Owen’s cousin, Josh Palmateer — who said he “married into the Owen family about 25 years ago” —spoke on behalf of the family.

“Josh actually proposed to Shannon in the parking lot at Red Lobster by handing her the ring and saying ‘Hey, you want to get married?'” he told the crowded Minnewaska Area High School gymnasium. “Appropriately she made him get down on one knee, and she said yes.”

The couple was married the next day, the story went.

In that and other moments Saturday, outright laughter filled the room, comforting and cutting through some of the pain.

“Rylan if you had been alive while your father was deployed, I can only imagine the way he would have talked about you,” Anderson said addressing Owen’s son. “There will be times you feel alone, times you feel cheated. But in those times, please remember this room.”

“You may not fully understand it now,” Anderson continued. “But the brotherhood and sisterhood of police and military communities will be there for you as you grow into a man.”

“I’m gonna remember Josh O every time another dispatcher or coworker tells me that they love me,” Brecht said in closing. “I’ve decided that I’m going to do that from now on. This moment proves how uncertain life can be. And I regret not telling Josh how much I love and appreciate him when he was here.”

“Josh’s mom, Kathy, ended every call or text with Josh by saying ‘I love you more.’ And Josh took that same wonderful phrase and used it with Shannon,” Palmateer said, before speaking directly to Owen: “So Josh, we all want you to know that ‘we love you more.'”