MONTREAL — A bus with 60 law-enforcement officers left Montreal at 2 a.m. Wednesday bound for Boston to attend a memorial service for of one of their own.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier, 27, died April 18, allegedly shot by the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects.
A private funeral for the officer was held on Tuesday but a larger memorial will be held Wednesday at noon, with officials expecting up to 10,000 people.
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Classes at MIT have been cancelled for the day so students, staff and faculty as well as law-enforcement officials from across North America can attend.
Police from Montreal, Laval, Longueuil and Sûreté du Québec and other forces will be representing the province at the service to be held in Briggs Field on the Cambridge campus of the university.
“It’s a professional courtesy,” said Constable Martin Simard with the Longueuil police.
“When one of our officers with the SQ was killed, there were police from Massachusetts who came up here.”
The police officers are expected to return to Montreal Wednesday night after the service.
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