Hundreds of people filed through Cuba High School Sunday to pay their final respects to Fulton County Deputy Troy Chisum.
Chisum was fatally shot June 25 while responding to a battery and disturbance call at a residence in Avon.
Chisum’s visitation was held at the school. Funeral services begin at 11 a.m. Monday. The funeral procession will travel from Cuba High School to 1324 NE Adams Street in Peoria.
People waited for hours with the line winding out of the gym, into the hall and outside where the heat index was, at one point, 101 degrees.
Chisum’s visitation also included a first repsonder walk through. The nearly 20-minute walk was led by Fulton County Sheriff Jeff Standard and his wife and included hundreds of law enforcement officers, firefighters and paramedics.
Chisum was a four-and-a-half year veteran of the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office. He was a paramedic with the Fulton County EMA and was a member of the West Central Special Response Team and the ILEAS WMD/SRT Team, Region 6. Chisum also worked on duty crew of the Northern Tazewell Fire Department as a medic and firefighter. Chisum started with the Northern Tazewell department in 2006 and has been working part-time for 13 years.
Chisum’s squad car was parked at the entrance to the high school. Members of the Patriot Guard stood at the entrance to the school and Illinois State Police had eight comfort dogs.
Members of the public are encouraged to line the funeral procession route Monday to pay respects to Deputy Chisum.
The procession route will be as follows:
Exit Cuba High School parking lot turning left (south) onto Route 97
Route 97 into Lewistown
Route 97 to Route 24 – turn left (East)
Route 24 to Route 9/24 junction at Banner (turn right)
Route 24 into Bartonville
Continue into Peoria on Adams Street to the Adams/Washington Street split
Turn slightly to the right onto Washington Street
Continue on Washington Street through the Warehouse District, past the Peoria Riverfront Museum and Caterpillar Visitors Center to the Eaton Street split near the RiverPlex
Take the right turn at the Eaton Street split onto NE Adams Street
Continue to 1324 NE Adams Street