The service will be held Thursday at Westover Church in Greensboro.
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It was not clear whether the funeral would be open to the public.
Nix was shot last Saturday when he reportedly confronted people attempting to steal beer from a Sheetz gas station on Sandy Ridge Road off Interstate 40.
The suspects were later caught in Winston-Salem.
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Jamere Justice Foster, 18, is accused of firing five shots at Nix, striking him twice. Foster, along with two others -- Z'quriah Le'Pearce Blackwell, 18, and John Walter Morrison, 28 -- are facing charges in the death of the 23-year police veteran.
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