BROWNSBURG, Ind. (AP) — Bagpipers played “Amazing Grace” as a police honor guard folded the American flag that covered the casket of a slain central Indiana sheriff’s deputy.

That ceremony at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis was followed by many of the hundreds of police officers in attendance placing flowers on Boone County Deputy Jacob Pickett’s casket before it was buried Friday evening.

A procession from Pickett’s funeral in Brownsburg to Lebanon and then to the cemetery covered more than 50 miles and took more than four hours for the long line of police vehicles to complete.

Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb said during Pickett’s funeral that all Hoosiers are grateful for officers like Pickett who “work every day” to ensure most people never encounter that evil.

The 34-year-old Pickett was a married father of two. He was fatally shot March 2 during a foot chase for fleeing suspects in Lebanon.