DAYTONA BEACH, Fla — A closed casket viewing is taking place Sunday for Daytona Beach Police Officer Jason Raynor, a day before his funeral.

Officer Raynor died Tuesday after being shot in the line of duty almost two months ago.

A ceremony was held by the police department last week where members of law enforcement and the public were able to pay their respect.

Sunday's viewing and Monday's funeral are both private events.

Fire trucks along Beach Avenue raised a large American flag as members of the community also paid their respects and watched the hearse and its escort carry Raynor to the viewing.

“It is an amazing display of brothership, I think, and service acknowledged for this officer,” said Daytona Beach Resident Sue Turner.

At the Daytona Beach Police Department, residents and others added to a growing memorial at Raynor's patrol cruiser, which is parked in front of the building.

“We brought a dozen roses — those are the one's Abby, my daughter, picked out, and those are the ones she wanted to give them,” said Volusia County resident Janice Price.

Janice and Abby said they were touched by Raynor’s service and the outpouring of support from the community.

“It touched our hearts it truly did," Price said. "I am sorry — I am going to cry — he just died so young protecting us and our community.”

Lt. Timothy Brown drove to Daytona Beach from New Jersey to pay his respects to Raynor.

"The least we can do, a little part to remember him," Brown said. "It's a dangerous job and we all understand that when we do it. When something like this happens, it hurts."

Before he died Tuesday, Raynor, 26, had been fighting for his life in the hospital since he was shot June 23, when the officer approached a man in a vehicle near Kingston Avenue and asked him if he lived nearby, according to bodycam footage released by police. 

The man in the car, later identified by investigators as Othal Wallace, 29, can be seen getting agitated in the video before struggling with Raynor. It was during the struggle that a gunshot could be heard.

Wallace was taken into custody three days later in a treehouse on a Georgia property outside of Atlanta, officials said.

Wallace had been charged with attempted first-degree murder of a law enforcement officer with a firearm. Wallace's charges were upgraded to first-degree murder after Raynor's death, and on Wednesday, state attorney RJ Larizza said he would seek the death penalty.

Raynor's death hit local members of law enforcement especially hard.

"He was a police officer and a brother," said Holly Hill police officer Robert Culver, who responded to the scene the night Raynor was shot. "I made it almost 20 years without having to respond to a call like that, and, you know, I hope it never happens again.

"But he's in a better place."