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Street Closures for Park Police Funeral Procession

Roads leading into downtown D.C., including parts of Rock Creek Parkway near the National Mall, will be closed around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday.

The funeral procession for United States Park Police Sergeant Michael Boehm will close roads in the District near the Memorial Bridge, including a portion of Rock Creek Parkway.

Sgt. Boehm died in the line of duty .

Sgt. Boehm's funeral mass will take place at the Church of the Nativity in Burke, Va. and will be followed by a funeral procession that will go past the USPP headquarters in Washington, D.C., according to a release from the USPP.

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The processional is expected to leave the church at about 11:30 am and surrounding roads will be closed for an estimated hour and a half. The closures will be be “rolling” though some routes may be closed for longer periods of time, according to the USPP.

The route is as follows:

  Exit the church making right turn on Old Keene Mill Rd

  Left on Fairfax County Parkway

  Left on ramp to I 395 north HOV

  Left on exit ramp to Washington Blvd/VA Rt 27

  Washington Blvd/VA Rt 27 to Memorial Bridge

  Across Memorial Bridge into Washington, DC at the Lincoln Memorial

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  South on 23rd Street on the south side of the Lincoln Memorial

  Left turn eastbound Independence Avenue to Maine Ave

  Maine Ave to East Basin Dr heading towards the Jefferson Memorial

  South on Ohio Dr towards Hains Point

  Right turn west onto Buckeye Dr and past US Park Police Headquarters

  Right turn onto Ohio Dr along Potomac River, across Inlet Bridge,
     through West Potomac Park heading back towards the Lincoln Memorial

  Left onto Ohio Drive/Rock Creek Parkway behind Lincoln Memorial to make
     ramp back onto Memorial Bridge returning into Virginia

  Memorial Bridge to south on George Washington Parkway  to south VA Rt 27
     to I 395 south HOV

  South on I 395 HOV to Fairfax County Parkway

  Left exit onto Fairfax County Parkway making right onto FFX Parkway
     itself

  Right on Braddock Road

  Left on Burke Station Road

  Right turn into cemetery: Fairfax Memorial Park 9900 Braddock Road Fairfax, VA 22032.


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