Utah police officer creates charity coin to honor Sgt. Invoice Hooser

SARATOGA SPRINGS — A Utah police officer discovered a singular approach to pay his respects to Sgt. Invoice Hooser.

He was the Santaquin officer killed within the line of responsibility on Could 5.

Cpl. Derrick Luera, with the Saratoga Springs Police Division, designed a 2-inch charity coin that contains a sliding entrance that opens to disclose a 3D portrait of Hooser.

He is promoting the cash by means of his social media account for $29 shipped. Fee is accepted by means of Venmo @GunslingerForge801. The proceeds will go towards Hooser’s household. Every member of the Santaquin Police Division will likely be gifted a coin.

“He is already created a legacy for himself; individuals will know him perpetually,” Luera stated. “He’ll be remembered day-after-day, and his household will bear in mind him. … If this makes one small, materialized token, that when someone appears at it, they’re like, ‘Sgt. Hooser?’ and so they ask about it, they’ll proceed to unfold the phrase, proceed his legacy.”

Luera stated he began out accumulating police charity cash as a passion. He noticed the potential to make extra artistic and spectacular designs on a funds {that a} police officer may afford.

“I reached out to some native coin firms that make badges and cash,” he stated. “The costs they had been charging these cops to make these cash had been outrageous. These cops do not make that a lot cash already.”

Luera used his background in graphic design to start sketching, designing and enhancing the designs on his pc. He stated factories reached out to him as soon as they noticed his work, providing to fabricate his product. He is been creating memorabilia for the previous 5 years.

Luera stated an officer with the Roosevelt Police Division requested if he’d be keen to create a charity coin in Hooser’s reminiscence.

“He stated, ‘I wish to do a coin,’ he noticed the coin that I did for Cody Barton,” Luera stated. “He was one of many individuals concerned within the seize of the suspect.”

Luera stated every coin tells a narrative, and his hope is for Hooser’s coin to assist maintain the fallen officer’s reminiscence alive.

“It is cool to observe and know that this stuff are going out everywhere, everywhere in the world now,” he stated.