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I am at the Riverside County Coroner’s Office in Perris, where I’m told they are expecting a procession with the body of the fallen CHP officer to arrive tonight from Inland Valley Medical Center in Wildomar. 
We are still awaiting word on the route for the procession.
The CHP has identified the officer as Sgt. Steve Licon.
The procession will come up the 215 to Redlands Avenue, then south to the coroner’s office at 800 S. Redlands Ave. I’m told the procession has just left Wildomar.
That’s the coroner’s office in Perris.
The procession has started.
Pablo Ayala, 56, of Perris, came to the coroner’s office to watch the procession and pay his respects to Sgt. Licon. His reaction to his death was “Shock. Real shock. Upset.”
Bill Young, president of the Riverside Sheriffs Association, is here at the coroner’s office. It’s a tight brotherhood in law enforcement.
Well-wishers wait for the procession outside the coroner’s office.
Jamelia Adams, 40, and son Jordan Griffin, 7, of Perris, turned out st the coroner’s office. “I think it’s important to support one of our own coming from Riverside County,” she said. Added Jordan: “Everybody sticks together.”
Bobby Steele, 48 and a resident of Lake Elsinore, works for Brothers Towing. He and a number of other tow crews parked outside the coroner’s office to pay their respects. 1/2
Said Steele: “We work hand in hand with these guys (CHP officers), day in and day out, and it hits the heart when it happens.”
This line of colorful lights you see is the procession on the 215. It will exit soon and arrived soon.
The procession has arrived. Some onlookers held their hands over their hearts.
Sgt. Licon’s hearse was among the first in the procession of hundreds of police cars, police motorcycles and fire engines that arrived at the coroner’s office at 9:48 p.m. with emergency lights flashing and sirens quiet. Onlookers stood respectfully, some with hands over hearts.
Law enforcement officers and firefighters trudged without a word into a back area of the coroner’s office, where Sgt. Licon’s body was unloaded. And then just as silently, the first responders returned to their vehicles and left.
A long row of CHP motorcycles like the one Sgt. Licon rode sits outside the coroner’s office as CHP officers huddle at the far end.
The driver of the car that hit Sgt. Licon has been arrested on suspicion of murder, according to the jail log. He is Michael Callahan, 36, of Winchester.
