BEAUMONT, Texas — A handmade cross now hangs above the photograph of fallen Beaumont Police Officer Sheena Yarbrough-Powell, completing a memorial wall that honors officers who died in the line of duty.

The Beaumont Police Department displays small, hand-made crosses above framed pictures of fallen officers on their wall of honor.

Officer Yarbrough-Powell's space remained empty until this summer when artist Meredith McMurray of the Beaumont Art League created the missing memorial piece.

"That's one tradition that we've had for the past several years," said Officer Cesar Beattie, a public information officer for the Beaumont Police Department, describing the department's practice of displaying the handmade crosses.

Officer Beattie began searching for someone to create the cross after no

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