PINOLE — A memorial service Friday will allow many moved by last month’s fatal shooting of a Federal Protective Services officer in Oakland to pay their respects in person.
Angela Underwood Jacobs, sister to slain officer Dave Patrick Underwood, said the service will be held 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday at Pinole High School Theater, 2900 Pinole Valley Road.
Underwood, a 53-year-old Pinole resident, was killed in an attack May 29. He was remembered fondly by friends as a good-natured man and talented Pinole Valley High School athlete.
In a social-media post Tuesday, she said the memorial service would be a public service and available to watch live.
Underwood Jacobs said her brother was killed May 29 in a drive-by shooting while on duty outside Oakland’s federal building.
“Please come show your support to STOP THE VIOLENCE,” she said in part.
In lieu of flowers, she asked for donations to go to a GoFundMe online fund-raising account set up by Arizona resident Olivia Lillmars, saying its funds would go to the family.
As of 7 p.m. Tuesday, the campaign had raised $18,150 toward a $75,000 goal.
“I want America to change. I want you as our representatives in Congress to make a change so that no one ever has to wake up to the phone call I received telling me that my brother was shot dead and murdered,” Underwood Jacobs said last week in testimony before a U.S. House Judiciary Committee hearing on police practices and law-enforcement accountability.
The suspect in the shooting that killed Underwood and injured another federal officer has been arrested and charged. Authorities say he also killed a Santa Cruz deputy the following week as part of an effort to start up a second civil war.
Contact George Kelly at 408-859-5180.