{"id":252108,"date":"2025-09-24T22:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T22:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/252108\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T22:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T22:17:14","slug":"jacksonville-sheriffs-office-mourns-loss-of-active-duty-motor-unit-officer-who-lost-battle-with-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/252108\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office mourns loss of active-duty Motor Unit officer who lost battle with cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>JACKSONVILLE, Fla.<\/strong> \u2013 The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office is mourning the loss of active-duty Police Officer William \u201cBill\u201d Cater, who served in the Motor Unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Cater died Sunday after a brave battle with cancer, JSO said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cBill was a friend to many in our agency and community. He put his faith and family first,\u201d JSO said in a statement about the officer\u2019s passing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Cater joined the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office in 2003 and fulfilled his dream of working in traffic when joined the JSO Motor Unit in 2017, merging his passion for traffic safety with motorcycles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Cater was named Motorman of the Year in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cMore importantly, Bill was a loving family man. He served in high school ministry at his church, volunteered at church camp, and shared his voice as both a soloist and choir member,\u201d JSO said. \u201cHe loved the outdoors, especially surfing, skating, and riding motorcycles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Cater was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2023 but continued to serve as an active-duty officer \u201cwith courage and dedication.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cHe made an incredible impact here and will be deeply missed. We are supporting his family and working with them on memorial service plans,\u201d JSO said.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office is mourning the loss of active-duty Police Officer William \u201cBill\u201d Cater,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":252109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,718,3188,723,7310,16047,8423,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-252108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-community","10":"tag-fl","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-jacksonville","13":"tag-jacksonville-sheriffs-office","14":"tag-jso","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115261593659220660","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}