PANAMA CITY BEACH – For Lieutenant Christ Boyer of the Panama City Beach Police Department, it is vital that the network never dies of officers in the line of duty.
Motorcyclists will meet in the Just Jump car park on Middle Beach Road at 10. 30 a. m. m. Saturday to participate in Sergeant Kevin Kight’s commemorative parade, a 16th-year-on-monthly motorcycle rally. Kight, a former PCBPD sergeant, was fatally shot in traffic prevention in 2005.
“We appreciate the determination and service of all our officers, but especially those who paid the maximum sacrifice,” Boyer wrote in an email. “Our men and women face danger every day and yet every day, they put on the plate and pass to the community, knowing the risks.
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According to city officials, Kight was hired as a patrolman in 1998, then transferred to the department’s investigation division, where he was promoted to sergeant, from there he returned to the patrol division in 2004 and worked as a team leader until his death. .
The 34-year-old man was shot twice in the Spring Break on Front Beach Road and died while being taken urgently to the hospital. He had approximately two decades of experience in law enforcement.
His son, Brandon Kight, joined the PCB Police Department as a patrol officer this year, city officials noted.
Shortly after Kevin Kight’s death, the parade was pledged in his honor and became a key component of Thunder Beach Fall Gathering, said Joe Biggs, president of Thunder Beach Productions.
Thunder Beach Fall’s twenty-annual motorcycle rally, which runs until Sunday, was recently postponed after being previously cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I can’t believe I’m doing Thunder Beach without doing the Kevin Kight parade,” Biggs said. “It’s just a component of what we do.
While thousands of tourists make a stopover in Panama City Beach every year, the city still has a small-town feel and has been rocked by Kight’s murder, he added.
Biggs described Kight as someone who was known online not only as a police officer, but as a “great person. “
“The police worked hand in hand with us at the event, and they were very, very helpful,” Biggs said. “For me, (Kevin Kight’s parade) it’s also about doing business on this network and having a LongArray. . . and a smart relationship. “