Watch Live: Community to honor the life and service of fallen Deputy US Marshal Thomas Weeks

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Family, friends and the community will come together on Monday to honor the life and service of fallen Deputy US Marshal Thomas “Tommy” Weeks Jr.

The memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 6, at the Bojangles Coliseum located at 2700 E Independence Blvd in Charlotte. All members of the community are welcome.

Listen to Weeks’ last radio call tribute below:

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland and Director Ron Davis of the U.S. Marshals Service will deliver remarks at the memorial service. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco will also attend.

Weeks, 48, of Mooresville, died in the line of duty on April 29 when a suspect, identified as Terry Hughes Jr., 39, opened fire on law enforcement officers, killing Weeks and three others.

Weeks was part of a team executing a warrant for the arrest of Hughes, who was wanted out of Lincoln County, around 1:30 p.m. in the 5000 block of Galway Drive in east Charlotte.

The other three law enforcement officers who were killed have been identified as:

• CMPD Officer Joshua Eyer (Also a Sergeant First Class in the North Carolina Army National Guard – 211th Military Police Company)
• Samuel Poloche, NC Dept. of Adult Corrections (Member of U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force)
• William Elliott, NC Dept. of Adult Corrections (Member of U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force)

Weeks started his USMS career in February 2011 in the District of Columbia’s Superior Court, Washington, DC. He transferred in November 2014 to Charlotte.

Prior to USMS, he spent eight years with Customs and Border Protection.  

You can watch the memorial service on-air and online at QCnews.com