SEATTLE—The Seattle Police Foundation is raising funds to purchase and install a brand-new public memorial in honor and remembrance of fallen Seattle Police Department Officer Joselito “Lito” Alvarez Barber, killed in the line of duty on August 13, 2006.
This fundraising initiative is the 2024 iteration of the Seattle Police Fallen Officer Memorial Project, which honors one SPD fallen officer per year, traveling backwards through time. Each badge-shaped granite memorial stone mirrors the granite mourning badge installed in honor of Officer Timothy Brenton in the Leschi neighborhood and features the fallen officer’s serial (badge) number, which is etched on its face.
Officer Barber’s memorial stone will be inscribed with his serial number, which was 6897.
In honor of Officer Joselito Barber, they are asking our community of supporters to donate $68.97 to help the foundation reach their goal of $16,000 to purchase the memorial stone. The Seattle Police Foundation hopes to reach its goal by October 1, 2024, and plan to install the memorial in May of 2025.
Officer Barber graduated from the Washington Criminal Justice Training Commission’s Basic Law Enforcement Academy (BLEA) in January 2006. He was assigned to Seattle’s East Precinct, located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. He had served as a Seattle police officer for around six months when his patrol vehicle was broadsided by a sports utility vehicle traveling an estimated 80 miles-per-hour at 23rd Avenue S and E. Yesler Way.
Officer Barber was taken from the Seattle community far too soon, and is deeply missed by his friends, family, and fiancé, his brothers and sisters at the Seattle Police Department, and the Seattle community as a whole.
Please help us honor Officer Barber’s memory with a donation today.
The Seattle Police Foundation raises support and awareness for the Seattle Police Department. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and have proudly served the men and women of SPD and the Seattle community since 2002. Please learn more about us on our website.
SOURCE: Seattle Police Foundation
Author: Lynnwood Times Staff
