More than three dozen police agencies took part in escorting Sgt. Thomas Duran back to Kingfisher as he prepared for his final resting place.

The procession - stretching for more than a mile long - delivered the fallen police officer Monday afternoon to Sanders Funeral Service.

A 14-year police veteran, Duran worked at the El Reno Police Department, but lived in Kingfisher with his family.

The Bethany High School alumnus was assisting a pedestrian last week when he was critically injured in a hit-and-run accident.

Duran passed away Friday, but provided even in his death.

Duran was an organ donor.

Before his passing, the Oklahoma Fraternal Order of Police organized an hon- or walk for Duran where he was hospitalized in Oklahoma City.

The F.O.P. also organized the procession from the State Medical Examiner’s Office in Oklahoma City to the Kingfisher funeral home.

It included approximately 40 different law enforcement agencies, including the Kingfisher Police Department, Kingfisher County Sheriff’s Office and Kingfisher County Emergency Management as well as other state, county and local agencies.

“These escorts seek to honor and memorialize the individual and what their service meant,” said Oklahoma F.O.P. President Mark Nelson. “We largely do it so the family can see how much their officer meant to us and their community.”

Duran lived here with his wife, Kirsten, and their children Kambrie, 11, and Elliot Thomas, 4.

He also had two older children.

Kingfisher Police Chief Travis Gray didn’t personally know Duran, but said the tragedy still struck close to home.

“Anyone who has worked traffic has probably had a close call,” Gray said. “This is definitely an eye opener to all the possibilities and we are saddened for the police community and Thomas’ family.”

Recently-retired KPD offi cer Chod Trout did know Duran.

“We were beginning to have a pretty solid relationship,” said Trout, owner of Muscle Pa’s Fitness Center in Kingfisher where Duran worked out.

“Thomas is a good man,” Trout said. “He was dedicated to his family and his work. I know he had a philosophy about staying physically fit. He had made many comments in the past at the gym about being able to use his physicality to save lives or to save his own.

“He was almost prophetic in the way he spoke about it…almost like he knew that when God called him, he knew he would need to be at his peak, if not for himself, but maybe for someone else.”

And Duran was also venturing more down the path of his spirituality, sparking his mantra of “Saved, not soft.”

“Thomas loved Jesus and was really on fire about the gospel,” Trout said. “I think this new passion for Christ fueled the intensity of his mindset for training at the gym, in his life, in his beliefs and in his career.

“The gym is already not the same without his presence.”

Funeral services had not been announced at press time.

Logan Primeaux turned himself into authorities after the accident last week.

He remains in the Canadian County Jail on complaints of assualt and battery with a deadly weapon and leaving the scene of an accident involving injury.

There are multiple ways to support Duran’s family.

There are collection boxes set up near the registers at Jacket Express and Jacket Corner in Kingfisher as well as Warrior Express in Okarche.

Donations can also be mailed to Limitless 405 Church, which the Duran family attended. They can be mailed to 1221 Ridgecrest Drive, Kingfisher, OK 73750.

All donations sent to that address will be provided to the family.