Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

DEAR BRIAN IT HAS BEEN A YEAR SINCE YOU WERE TAKEN FROM US AND IT SEEMS LIKE JUST YESTERDAY..SO MUCH HAS CHANGED DYLAN ASKS FOR YOU EVERYDAY TELLS ME HOW MUCH HE MISSES YOU I KNOW YOU CAN SEE HOW SMART AND HANDSOME HE HAS BECOME BUT I WISH YOU COULD BE HERE TO DO ALL THE GUY THINGS YOU ALWAYS TALKED ABOUT DOING WITH HIM..THE DEDICATION CEREMONY WAS NICE IT IS CRAZY TO DRIVE BY THERE AND SEE YOUR NAME ON THE BUILDING..I MISS THE WAY YOU WOULD TAKE CARE OF US I KNOW YOU WERE MY GUARDIAN ANGEL HERE ON EARTH AND I PRAY FOR THE DAY WHEN WE CAN BE TOGETHER AGAIN......I MISS MY FRIEND LOVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART SOUL BODY MIND AND MONEY BABY. LOVE YOU DADDY DYLAN & ERIKA M

ERIKA & DYLAN MITCHELL

I was able to spend some time with your family last week in Washington D.C. while we were honoring our lost officers. They are a great bunch of individuals, your son being so smart, wife, brother, parents, and sister in law. It was so obvious they love you so much. Your brother really looks up to you. I am sorry they did not have more time with you here on earth but you will be together again one day. Thank you for being such an honorable man. Rest in peace and if you see my brother up there send him my love.

Dawn Noble

I met Officer Larry Mitchell at DEA school in Ruidoso. He was a fun loving person with the whole world in front of him. After class as we sat around swapping "Narc" stories it was obvious Larry loved what he was doing. We will miss you.

Lieutenant
New Mexico State Police

larry was a fine officer loved by many even though we worked for 2 seperate departments i saw him and talked to him daily while he was working or picking up his son from his inlaws home right next door to my home
erika when you read this always remember my family is here for you ...always!

FELIPE JAUREGUI
NM STATE POLICE GALLUP NM

I knew Larry Mitchell through my mom, and when a cop dies it hits everyone around me very hard because I've grown up around cops all my life. If I could do one thing in my life it would be to help people realize that not all cops are bad. Larry was a great man on and off duty, we all loved him very much and he will be missed greatly. May God be by everyone's side that's been hurt by this tragedy and all cops around the world.

Captians daughter, Shannon Goodrich
McKinley County Sheriff's Department

GOD SPEED OFFICER MITCHELL. ADFINEM TERRAM FIDELIS TAMQUAM POST MORTEM.

Anonymous

I worked with Larry " Brian" Mitchell for close to five years in Gallup N.M. Brian was an exceptional Police officer and a great friend to me and others. For myself, and many others,May 30th will forever be a sad day.I wish we knew why things like this have to happen to such great people.I will never understand. Brian had such a great sense of humor. I remember one time,I was watching a prisoner at our local Hospital when Brian came in with a very intoxicated subject that had to be strapped to an emergency bed so he couldnt hurt himself.This guy was very loud and uncooperative. He kept yelling "what are you doing to me,let me up" And Brian with his sense of humor leaned over and told the guy " We are aliens, and you are on our mother ship. Just relax while we probe you" Everyone that was standing around started laughing. Even the drunk.He then finally started to calm down.This is just one of many memories I have of Brian.He will forever be missed by everyone who knew him as a friend,husband,father,son and brother.
I MISS YOU,BRIAN

patrolman Brian Price
St. Mary's polce Dept.

No one really understands how hard it is, how bad it hurts, to lose a brother in this tight family of law enforcement. That is, until it happens to them. But I would wish that no one ever feels that pain again.
It has been a year since we lost one of ours here in Flagstaff, AZ. Two of my dear friends were just hired into the family. To Officer Mitchell and all of the officers who have been taken from us, please watch over them and all of us here, working to make our communites safer places to live.

Anonymous
Coconino County Sheriff Department, Flagstaff, AZ

I worked for Gallup PD in the early 1970's. My nephew was the first officer (Ronald Baca)Gallup PD lost and now Officer Mitchell. My heart goes out to his family and the Department. It is the nature of the beast but we come to love the job and its inherent danger's always knowing that it will not be us losing the battle. His family I am sure are proud of his accomplishments and the weight of the loss will never diminish but hopefully they will confide in God and find some peace. God Bless them and the Department. Richard Sena

Richard Robert Sena
Ex Gallup PD Officer