BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Hundreds of law enforcement officers from around Louisiana and around the country are among the many mourners paying their respects to a slain Baton Rouge police officer at the visitation ahead of his funeral.

They filed quietly Monday morning to the black coffin holding the body of Montrell Jackson. Some solemnly saluted their fellow officer while others made the sign of the cross.

Michael Fendrick, a sheriff’s deputy from Dakota County, Minnesota, was among those officers who traveled to the service as part of an honor guard team. He says it’s important to show Jackson’s family “their loved one was just as important to us as to them.”

Jackson, a 32-year-old corporal, is the third and final Baton Rouge law enforcement officer killed in an ambush last week to be buried.