A makeshift memorial sits in front of the B-Quick convenience store in Baton Rouge, La., Tuesday, July 19, 2016, after law enforcement officers were killed on Sunday. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Across this city, shocked residents gathered Tuesday in churches, at community vigils and a motorcycle rally to offer support for the law enforcement community and the three officers who were slain in an ambush by a gunman.
Families with children, drivers passing through and law enforcement officers from outside the area have been laying flowers and balloons or hanging crosses at a makeshift memorial in front of the B-Quick convenience store near where the officers were killed Sunday.
Tuesday evening a procession of a few hundred motorcyclists roared down Airline Highway and gathered at police headquarters to show their respects.
Funeral arrangements for two of the officers have been made public: Montrell Jackson, a 10-year police force veteran with a newborn at home, will be laid to rest Monday. Visitation for Matthew Gerald, an Iraq war veteran who became a Baton Rouge police officer less than a year ago, will be held Thursday and Friday. Funeral services will be held Friday.
Arrangements for 45-year-old Brad Garafola, an East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputy and a father of four, have not been made public.
The three are among 10 law enforcement officers killed over a span of 10 turbulent days around the country by attackers - at a protest march in Dallas, a courthouse in Michigan and now a convenience store in Baton Rouge.
Even as Baton Rouge was mourning the three officers, news came Tuesday that a police in Kansas City was shot and killed while sitting in his patrol car.
In Sunday's Baton Rouge shooting, Gavin Long, a former Marine from Missouri dressed in black and carrying extra ammunition, opened fire on officers about 8:45 a.m., police said.
The officers lived in the area of Denham Springs, a quiet bedroom community across the Amite River from Baton Rouge, which has been in turmoil for two weeks. Tensions rose sharply after the death of Alton Sterling, 37, a black man killed by white Baton Rouge officers after a scuffle at a convenience store. The killing was captured on cellphone video, sparking widespread protests against police treatment of the African-American community.
Faith and community leaders, black and white, gathered at a Baton Rouge church Tuesday to discuss ways to improve police relations with local black residents.
More than 100 people with Together Baton Rouge held signs bearing the words "We refuse to be divided."
The group condemned recent violence but also called for more community policing tactics.
"Unless relationships are established, there will be no changes. Police officers need to get out of their cars and have one-on-one conversations with people in their community," said the Rev. Lee Wesley, who is black.
Wesley said the city needs to look at how potential law officers are vetted. People need to show more respect for police officers, but police officers need to show more respect for residents, he said.
One of the people paying his respects Tuesday to law enforcement officers was LSU football coach Les Miles, a prominent figure in a city where the Tigers' purple and gold colors can be seen flying everywhere.
Miles met privately in unannounced meetings with the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office and Baton Rouge Police.
LSU spokesman Michael Bonnette confirmed the visits with authorities after the coach was seen entering police headquarters, where he spent more than an hour, by The Associated Press.
Bonnette says Miles wanted to express his support and discuss his appreciation for the courage police show in putting their lives on the line to protect their communities.
In Washington, President Barack Obama met with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, FBI Director James Comey and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. He said after the meeting that what happened in Baton Rouge is a reminder of the extraordinary risks and dangers that law enforcement officers take every day "to protect us and our way of life."
The president said he'll use his remaining months as president to figure out which practices work best, and how to help rebuild trust between police and the communities they serve.
A makeshift memorial sits in front of the B-Quick convenience store Tuesday, July 19, 2016, in Baton Rouge, La., after law enforcement officers were killed on Sunday. A former Marine set out to ambush police in Baton Rouge, authorities said Monday. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)
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A memorial sign is posted Monday, July 18, 2016, in front of the B-Quick convenience store where law enforcement officers where engaged by a gunman and three were killed on Sunday in Baton Rouge, La. Pictured in the poster is, from left to right, Montreal Jackson, Matthew Gerald, both with the Baton Rouge Police Department and Brad Garafola of the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)
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Samuel Mironchuk prays at a makeshift memorial at the scene of the shooting of police officers, in Baton Rouge, Monday, July 18, 2016. Multiple police officers were killed and wounded Sunday morning in a shooting near a gas station in Baton Rouge, less than two weeks after a black man was shot and killed by police here, sparking nightly protests across the city. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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East Baton Rouge Sheriff officer Eddie Guidry is hugged by a teary Terri Carney, both members of The Rock Church which is a ministry on the outskirts of Baton Rouge, during a prayer vigil for the officers killed and wounded by a gunman on Sunday as well as members of the local law enforcement community in Zachary, La., Monday, July 18, 2016. About 100 people came to the special hour long prayer vigil. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)
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People attend a candlelight vigil for fallen Baton Rouge police officers, at the Healing Place Church in Baton Rouge, La., Monday, July 18, 2016. Multiple police officers were killed and wounded Sunday morning in a shooting near a gas station in Baton Rouge. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Millville, N.J. police chaplain Robert Ossler prays Monday, July 18, 2016, at a makeshift memorial at the fatal shooting scene in Baton Rouge, La., where several law enforcement officers were killed on Sunday. A former Marine set out to ambush police in Baton Rouge, authorities said Monday. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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This undated photo made available by the Baton Rouge Police Dept. shows police officer Matthew Gerald. Gerald, 41, was killed by a gunman in Baton Rouge, LA., Sunday, July 17, 2016. (Baton Rouge Police Dept. via AP)
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This undated photo made available by the Baton Rouge Police Dept. shows officer Montrell Jackson. Jackson, 32, has been identified as one of the police officers killed in a shooting early Sunday, July 17, 2016, in Baton Rouge, La. (Baton Rouge Police Dept. via AP)
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This undated photo made available by the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office shows deputy Brad Garafola. Garafola and at least two other Baton Rouge law enforcement officers investigating a report of a man with an assault rifle were killed Sunday, July 17, 2016, less than two weeks after a black man was fatally shot by police here in a confrontation that sparked nightly protests that reverberated nationwide. (East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office via AP)
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Mother, Crystal Rende, center, and her family, including from left to right, Lara Rende, 15, Aydin Rende, 4, Noah Rende, 6, and Hannah Enamorado, 13, pray in front of a memorial of flowers and mementos in front of theB-Quick convenience store where Baton Rouge law enforcement officers where engaged by a gunman and three were killed on Sunday in Baton Rouge, La., Monday, July 18, 2016. Rende's daughters attend Denham Springs Jr. High School, a school in the community where two of the officers who were killed lived. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)
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A memorial at the location where Baton Rouge police officers were killed and wounded continues to grow, Monday, July 18, 2016, in Baton Rouge, La. (Scott Clause/The Daily Advertiser via AP)
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This frame grab made from a video posted on YouTube on July 10, 2016, shows Gavin Eugene Long speaking as his online persona Cosmo Setepenra. Long killed law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge, La., on Sunday, July 17, 2016. (YouTube via AP)
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Shattered glass surrounds a bullet hole at Fitness Expo, Monday, July 18, 2016, at the fatal shooting scene in Baton Rouge, La., where several law enforcement officers were killed on Sunday. A former Marine set out to ambush police in Baton Rouge, authorities said Monday. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Pastor Robert Ossler, left, prays with people visiting a memorial Monday, July 18, 2016, in front of the B-Quick convenience store where law enforcement officers where engaged by a gunman and three were killed on Sunday in Baton Rouge, La. Ossler, a police chaplain from Millville New Jersey, was on his way home from comforting officers in Dallas when the shooting in Baton Rouge happened and he felt compelled to come to Baton Rouge. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)
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Pastor Fredrick Sweetwyne of Jordan United Methodist Church, center, and other members of Together Baton Rouge, a faith and community organization of leaders from 100 congregations and organizations, stand together at St. Paul Lutheran Church during a press conference in Baton Rouge, La. Tuesday, July 19, 2016 . Leaders of the organization addressed the shooting of law enforcement officers on Sunday. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)
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