Mourners grieve for jail officer shot by police after chase

They wore black bands over their badges, more than hundred of them, stone-faced sheriff’s deputies in their powder blue shirts and white gloves.

They stopped traffic in Roxbury this morning as fellow jail officers carried Marquis J. Barker’s body into the St. John Missionary Baptist Church — where he had been married just four years before — and saluted him with an honor guard, bag pipes, and all the tributes for a man who spent 18 years keeping prisoners in line at the Nashua Street Jail.

“What happened was so out of

character of him, it feels like a dream,” Kim Sanders Barker told the family, friends, and colleagues who came to mourn her husband. “Never in a million years did I think I would be here, never did I imagine this … What did I miss? I don’t know.”

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