GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP0 -- Fallen Greensboro Police Officer Michael Horan leaves behind a family, including his wife and two children, and extended family, including many members of law enforcement and the United States Coast Guard. On Thursday, he Will be laid to rest 17 days after he was killed in the line of duty at a Greensboro grocery store. The procession begins at noon at the Hanes Lineberry Funeral Home on West Gate City Boulevard. It ends at Westover Church on Muirs Chapel Road and will be followed by the service at 2 p.m. If you do want to attend, the funeral is open to the public, and the public portion of the ceremony will hold about 1,000 people. Among those in attendance will be a large group of law enforcement to show their support as well as many Greensboro city leaders who are reeling from the deaths of two officers in a year. “We intend to go to the funeral tomorrow. I think that’s the least we can do. He was a brother of ours in law enforcement, and we all hurt ... It’s like someone yanked part of your heart out," Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson said.  Johnson says this loss has taken a toll on all law enforcement in the Triad. "Here’s a department that has worked extremely hard that has lost two officers within a year’s time. There’s no healing with that," Johnson said. The Greensboro Police Department suffered the loss of a brother in Dec. 2023 when Sergeant Dale Nix was killed. The loss of Horan just before Christmas reopened that wound. “I don't ever recall the GPD or any local organization have lost two working men that love their families and their communities almost a year to the day," Guilford County Sheriff Danny Rogers said.  Rogers says he expects to see many agencies represented at the funeral on Thursday. City leaders will also be there to support the grieving family and department like Greensboro City Manager Trey Davis, who wears the indentation of a badge underneath the city nametag he now bears.  "A large part of my career in public service was as a police officer. I started my career in 1996, stayed with the Greensboro Police Department until 2019. And so my heart and a lot of my upbringing will always be with the police department and understanding the police family ... To lose one of your fellow police officers in the line of duty this way is ... unimaginable," Davis said. FOX8 spoke to law enforcement and city leaders across the Triad and will have their thoughts and messages of support in coverage all day Thursday and will livestream the services for Horan.