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Officer Kevin Denner killed by drunk driver.

From KDVR

DENVER — A Littleton police officer who died after being hit by an alleged drunken driver was laid to rest Friday morning.

The funeral for Officer Kevin Denner was held at the Mission Hills Church in Littleton.  About 650 people attended the service.

Denner was riding his motorcycle off-duty Monday when he was hit by a car in Aurora. Police said Denner died at the scene.

Jemal Abdelkader Dawed, 37, was arrested at the scene. He faces charges including driving under the influence of alcohol, vehicular homicide, careless driving and failure to yield the right of way.

Denner is survived by his wife, Kristin …MORE

Ricky Trent Stanley, in a prior DWI arrest photo
From KXII

SHERMAN, TX — A Grayson County Sheriff’s Deputy was killed in the line of duty Saturday night, while directing traffic.

Just before 10:30, Fannin County Sheriff’s deputies and DPS troopers were in pursuit of a driver heading westbound on Highway 82. The pursuit ended at the intersection of 82 and Bethany Road — just east of Sherman.

That’s when officers, including Sheriff’s Deputy Chad Key, were called out to assist in directing traffic at the scene but that routine assistance turned into a deadly accident.

Sheriff’s Deputy Chad Key responded to this intersection of Highway 82 and Bethany Road east of Sherman, just before 10:30 Saturday night.

“They were working that scene and our deputy was out there assisting with traffic control, helping route cars around,” Lt. Rickey Wheeler said.

That’s when authorities say suspected drunk driver, 28-year-old Ricky Trent Stanley of Whitesboro, seen here in a prior mug shot, failed to stop and struck the 42-year-old deputy.

Key was rushed to Texoma Medical Center in Denison, where he later died.

Deputy Key graduated from ….MORE

From My SanAntonio:
After a decade of probation for the death of an off-duty San Antonio police sergeant in a drunken driving wreck, Simon Feliciano Cordova, 52, appeared in court for the last time Tuesday.
But instead of celebration that his obligations to the state were over, the intoxication manslaughter convict wept.
The tears came as Cordova was asked to return a photo of victim Sgt. Paul Rangel Jr. that he had been ordered to keep in his wallet as a condition of his probation.
“He asked if he could keep the photograph because it’s penance he pays every day by looking at (it),” defense attorney Eddie Garcia explained after the brief motion to revoke probation hearing ended. …MORE

From Philly.com
Common Pleas Judge Benjamin Lerner denied a motion to quash the third-degree murder charge against defendant John D. Leck, who is accused of killing Officer Brian Lorenzo on July 8 in the fiery crash on I-95 near the Cottman Avenue exit.
Michael K. Parlow, Leck’s attorney, filed the motion asking that the murder count – the most serious charge against his client – be thrown out.
Leck, 47, a debt collector from Levittown, was driving the wrong way shortly after 3 a.m., when his Audi A6 struck struck Lorenzo’s motorcycle head-on. The officer was thrown into the car’s windshield and then over the top of the car to the pavement.
Lorenzo, 48, a 23-year veteran cop, husband and father of three, was left dead on the highway. He had been headed home to the Northeast after his work shift.
Assistant District Attorney Jacqueline Coelho….MORE
Widow of officer files lawsuit against bar that served John D. Leck too much booze and then let him drive away to kill

this message is not just for teenagers…. RIDE WITH A DRUNK DRIVER, BUY A TICKET TO YOUR OWN FUNERAL!

From AppealDemocrat.com
A Sutter County sheriff’s deputy was killed late Wednesday, the apparent victim of a drunken driving collision near Smartsville.
Rory Roguski, 25, of Yuba City, was pronounced dead at the scene, the CHP said in a press release.
The driver, Erin Marie Jasper, of Oregon House, was arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter and felony DUI.
“This is a horrible tragedy,” Sheriff J. Paul Parker said Thursday. “The department is just stunned by it.”
Jasper, 26, was taken by air ambulance to Sutter Roseville Medical Center with unspecified minor injuries, the CHP said.
An update on her condition was not available and hospital officials could neither confirm nor deny Jasper was still a patient today.
Jasper has not been booked into the Yuba County Jail, authorities said. ….MORE

Kenyon Youngstrom
From Palo Alto Daily News
CORDELIA — Kaycee phoned her father, petrified as she heard a stranger walking through the house.
As the then-high school sophomore cowered in her room with a friend, her father John Caughman — miles away from the house — did what every Aspen Court resident in need of help did. He called Ken.
Neighbor Kenyon Youngstrom, a California Highway Patrol officer, told Caughman to have his daughter stay put, got his flashlight and searched the entire house. “Tell your daughter it’s all clear,” Youngstrom told his worried friend.
It turned out the “intruder” was Caughman’s black Labrador retriever, who went into the house through a backyard screen and loudly tramped on the home’s wood laminate floors, terrifying Kaycee.
The 2009 incident became a running joke between the two families. But on Thursday, Caughman retold the story with a heavy heart, less than 24 hours after his friend and trusted neighbor succumbed to a bullet wound to the head after a traffic stop Tuesday morning on a freeway shoulder in Alamo.
The suspect in the shooting, Christopher Lacy — a 36-year-old software engineer from Rancho Tehama, near Corning — was shot to death moments later by a second CHP officer. That officer has been placed on paid administrative leave per standard procedure.
Investigators offered no new details Thursday about a possible motive, other than to say that Youngstrom was shot just a few seconds after first speaking
with Lacy. But in ….MORE

Cpl. Marshall Lee Bailey

From The Daily Mail
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The two state troopers shot near the Roane-Clay county line were fired upon from the back seat of their cruiser by a handcuffed man they had arrested for reckless and intoxicated driving.
Col. Jay Smithers, West Virginia State Police superintendent, and Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin spoke Wednesday at State Police Headquarters in South Charleston about Tuesday night’s incident.
They spoke a few feet from the Hall of Honor where the names and photographs of 38 fallen troopers line the wood-paneled walls.
The last trooper shot and killed in the line of duty was nearly 20 years ago. Senior Trooper Larry Hacker was shot and killed in 1993 in Ritchie County, where he was responding to a dispute between neighbors.
The corridor is a quiet and somber place on normal days, but Wednesday was different. Another name would be added soon.
“Today, we are faced with the harsh reality of adding yet another portrait,” Smithers said.
Emergency dispatchers in Nicholas County notified law enforcement at 7:25 p.m. Tuesday that a white Chevrolet Silverado was traveling recklessly in the northbound lanes of Interstate 79. The pickup crashed in the median and then sped south.
Troopers identified the driver as Luke Baber, 22, of Oak Hill.    …..MORE

From Philly.com
The widow of Philadelphia Police Officer Brian Lorenzo is suing the Bensalem T.G.I. Friday’s restaurant that served alcohol to the wrong-way driver who allegedly struck and killed him last month.
Also named as defendants in the suit, filed late Thursday afternoon in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court, is the restaurant’s parent company, Carlson, and John D. Leck Jr., identified as the driver of the Audi A6 that struck and killed Lorenzo on July 8.
Leck, 47, of Levittown, drank “at least six alcoholic beverages,” including three 22-ounce Coors Lights, one 14-ounce Coors Light, and two vodka drinks, at the Friday’s on Street Road, according to the suit.
“Leck left the T.G.I. Friday’s so drunk that he has no recollection of where he went afterward, until he, with a blood-alcohol level of 0.218, killed Officer Lorenzo,” the suit states.
According to police, Leck was driving south on northbound lanes of I-95 at 3:13 a.m. when his Audi collided with a police motorcycle being ridden by Lorenzo, 48, just south of Cottman Avenue.
Lorenzo, a 23-year veteran of the force assigned to the Highway Patrol Unit, had just finished a shift and was riding to his home in the Somerton section of Northeast Philadelphia when he was killed.   ….MORE

From CBSDFW
WAXAHACHIE  – A Waxahachie police officer, killed in a car crash, marks the second law enforcement death this week blamed on drunk driving.
Police say, 44-year-old Josh Williams, was responding to a report of a disturbance at a local fast food restaurant.
DPS troopers say, Williams was turning left crossing into a driveway, when a suburban headed in the opposite direction, with its headlights off, struck him.
“This is first officer I’ve lost in ten years, so it’s tough,” said Waxahachie Police Chief Chuck Edge.    …..MORE