Community shows support for family of Navajo Nation police officer Alex Kee Yazzie

SHIPROCK — Gallup resident Mike Sekiya stood quietly next to the casket holding Navajo police officer Alex Kee Yazzie.

Sekiya stepped back, then saluted Yazzie before exiting the chapel at the Desert View Funeral Home here Thursday.

Yazzie, 42, of Crownpoint, was shot and killed on March 19 during a shootout near the Arizona-New Mexico line.

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