Elk Grove police officer volunteered at DUI checkpoint earlier than he was killed by suspected DUI driver
Elk Grove Police Division arrange public memorial for Ofc. Ty Lenehan
THISS I KCRA THREE NEWS AT 11:00. :EDIE WE BEGIN WITH THE OUTPOURING OF SUPPORT TONIGHT FOR ELK GROVE POLICE, AFTER THE DEATH OF OFFICER TY LENEN.HA THIS IS THE SCENE INSIDE THE POLI SCETATION. A MEMORIAL DEDICATED TO THE OFFICER’MEMORYS AND TONIT,GH WE’RE HEARING FROM VOLUNTEERS WHO WORKED ALONGSEID THE OFFICER TO TRY AND SAVE LIS.VE >> IT WAS REALLY FUN TO WATCH HIM BE ENGAGING WITH PEOPLE AS THEY CAME THROUGH ETH CHECKPOINT . VERY HUMAN AND DOWN-TO-EARTH. GULSTAN: OFFICER LENEHAN WAS KILLED BY A WRONG-WAY DRIVER ON HIGHWAY 99 FRIDAY MORNING ON HIS WAY TO WK.OR EDIE: AND THAT DRIVER IS SUSPECTED OF BEING UNDER THE INFLUENCE. KCRA 3’S BRITTANY HOPE IS LIVE OUTSIDE THE ELK OVGRE POLICE DEPARTME.NT BRITTANY, THIS MEMORIAL JUST KEEPS OWGRING. BRITTA:NY ABSOLUTELY AND YOU ARE REALLY INSIDE THE MEMORIAL AS SOON YOU COME INTO THE PARKING LOT. I WANTOT STEP ASIDE SO WE CAN SHOW YOU WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE COURTYARD RIGHT OUT FRONT. YOU CAN SEE ON EVERY SINGLE TREE, LAMPPOST, EVEN THE GATES HEREND ATA STUES, THEY ALL HAVE BLUE RIBBONS TIED TO THEM AND THIS IS JTUS THE BEGINNING. AS SOON AS YOU GO INSEID THE DOORS AT POLICE HEADQUARTER IS,T IS CLEAR THE COMMUNITY IS REALLY SHOWING UP. >> YOU MADE A BIG IMPACT IN OUR COMMUNITY. OUR HEARTS ARE WITH YOU. SOME OF THE NYMA MESSAGES PAINTING THE WALL OF THIS NEW MEALMO FOR OFFICER TY LENEHAN. HE WAS RIDING A MOTORCYCLE TO WORK LAST FRIDAY, WHEN HE WAS HIT AND KILLED, BY A SUSPECTED DUI DRIVER WHO WAS GOING THE WRONG WAY. THE ELK GROVE POLICE DEPARTMT, HONORING ONE OF THEIR OWN WHO WAS TAKEN TOO SOON. JU ST LAST MONTH, OFFICER LENEHAN VOLUNTEED HIS TIME AT A DUI CHECKPOINT, ALONGSIDE THE GROUP MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING. >> E H ENDED UP BEING IN SEVERAL. WHEN I HEARD ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED, I’MDID A LOT OF WORK W THEY ARE PRICELESS, BUT THEY ARE SAD. BRITTANY: THE IRONY, HIM CHOOSING TO SPEND HIS ME STOPPING DRUNK DRIVERS, IS PAINFUL. >> I DON’T TALK ABOUT HER WITH A LOT OF PEOPLE. HE MADE IT A RELAXED SITUATI.ON HE WAS SO SRYOR ABOUT TTHA AND HE IS OUT THERE EVERY DAY, TRYI TNGO PROTECT PEOPLE JUST LIKE MY DAUGHTER. BRITTANY: IN 1981, KATHLEEN HARRIS’ 12-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER WAS KILLED BY A FOUR-TIME DRUNK DRIVER OFFENDER. >> YOU DON’T FORGET. YOU NEVER FORGET. MY HEART HURTS EVERY DAY. WITH THIS THE HOLIDAYS, CHRISTMAS, ANYTHING LIKE THAT. FIRST THING WE DO, WE ARE AT THE CEMETERY WITH OUR DAUGHTER. BRITTA:NY THE FAMILY TNSUR THEIR PAIN INTO ACTION. M MOVOLUNTEERS FORAD M AND HER DAUGHTER RHONDA IS A FULL METI EMPLOYEE. >> IT IS NOT AN ACCIDENT. IT IS A CRASH AND IIST A CHOICE. BRITTANY: BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN THROUGH SOMETHING SIMILAR, WHAT IS YOUR MESSAGE TO THEM TONIGHT, TO HIS FAMILY? >> I KNOW THEY WILLE BGOING THROUGH A LOT OF STUFF IN THE NEXT WEEKS, MONTHS, YEARS, BUT I HOPE THEY KNOW THERE IS A WHOLE COMMUNITY OUT HERE THAT SUPPORTS THEM, TTHA LOVES THEM, AND THAT WILL CONINUEO T FIGHT THIS BATTLE. BRITTANY: SO THAT NO ONE ELSE HAS TO EXPERIENCE THIS SENSELESS LOSS. >> GIVE HIM ONE OF THOSEND A HE GAVE ME THE BIGGEST HUG WHEN I LEFT. BRITTANY: THE COIN WITH THE WORD HERO ENGRAVED A HERO WHO WILL BE ^ SO SSED.MI TONIGHT, YOU CAN SEE THAT HERO IS STILL BEING HONORED OUTSIDE THE MEMORIAL WITH CANDLES THAT ARE LIT UP. IF YOU ARE SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO COME VISIT AT THIS MEMORIAL AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS, IT IS GOING BTOE OPEN EVERY SINGLE DAY FROM 8:00 IN THE MORNING UNTIL 8:00 AT NIGHT. THE POLICE DEPTMARENT SAYS THEY ARE GOING TO KEEP IT UP UNTIL THE OFFICER’S FUNERAL. AT THIS POINT, WE DON’T KNOW WHEN THAT FUNERAL WILL BE BUT AS SOON AS WE KNOW, WE WILL UPDATE UYO HERE ON KCRA. BRITTANY HOPE, KCRA NEWS. EDIE: IT IS REALLY IMPORTAN TTO SEE ALL OF THAT SUPPORT. THANK YOU. GULSTAN: MORE ON OUR STORY RIGHT HERE STARTING AT 10:30 TOMORROW , MORNING, PEOPLE CAN PAY THEIR RESPECTS TO OFFICER LENEHAN. THE PROCESSION BEGINS ON LAGAUN BOULEVARD FROM HIGHWAY9. 9 YOU CAN SEE ON THE MAP HERE IT GOES OUT TO TO LAGUNA SPRINGS DRIVE. CONTINUING PAST THE ELK GREOV POLICE DEPARTMENT TOWARD ELK GROVE BOULAREVD. THE PROCESSION WILL CONTINUE ON ELK GROVE BOULEVARD TO ELK GROVE FLORIN ROAD, AND THEN TURNING TOWARD BOND ROAD. FROM THERE, THE PROCESSION WILL CONTINUE WESTBOUND TO NORTHBOUND 99. AT THAT INPOT, IT WILL HEAD TO HIGHWA50Y EAST. IN THEN,- – AND THEN PROCESSION , WILL EXIT NEAR BASS LAKE ROAD TO REACH THE GREEN VALLEY MORTUARY IN THE TO OWNF RESCUE. WE WILL MAKE SURE TO HAVE FULL COVERAGE OF THE PROCESSION TOMORROW, BEGINNING WITH LIVE COVERAGE ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE AND OUR MOBILE
Elk Grove police officer volunteered at DUI checkpoint earlier than he was killed by suspected DUI driver
Elk Grove Police Division arrange public memorial for Ofc. Ty Lenehan
Up to date: 11:29 PM PST Jan 24, 2022
KCRA 3 is studying extra about Ofc. Ty Lenehan, who was killed Friday by a suspected DUI driver driving within the flawed course on Freeway 99.In accordance with Moms Towards Drunk Driving, Officer Lenehan volunteered at a DUI checkpoint in Citrus Heights with the group in December, a couple of week earlier than Christmas.”Once I heard what occurred and went again and seemed I used to be like, yeah, he is proper there,” Rhonda Campbell instructed KCRA 3. “They’re priceless however they’re unhappy.”Campbell started volunteering with MADD in 2016 and have become an worker in 2017.She joined the group to show her household’s ache into motion. In 1981, her 12-year-old sister was killed by a four-time repeat drunk driving offender. Campbell and her mom Kathleen Harris had been with Lenehan at December’s DUI checkpoint and opened as much as him about their beloved one.”There is a distinction between any individual saying ‘I am sorry’ and conveying the sensation of ‘I am sorry,'” Campbell defined. “He was real; we felt that from him.” “He wasn’t a stranger,” Harris mentioned. “I used to be simply actual snug round him as a result of I do not discuss her with lots of people.”The mother-daughter pair say they help and love Lenehan’s household and can “proceed to combat this battle” so no different households need to lose a beloved one to an impaired driver. The Elk Grove Police Division arrange a brand new memorial for Officer Lenehan Monday night time. It’s situated contained in the 8380 Laguna Palms Manner constructing close to the EGPD essential foyer.Will probably be open to the general public from 8:00 a.m. to eight:00 p.m. till the officer’s funeral.As of Monday night time, funeral preparations haven’t been launched by the household.
KCRA 3 is studying extra about Ofc. Ty Lenehan, who was killed Friday by a suspected DUI driver driving within the flawed course on Freeway 99.
In accordance with Moms Towards Drunk Driving, Officer Lenehan volunteered at a DUI checkpoint in Citrus Heights with the group in December, a couple of week earlier than Christmas.
“Once I heard what occurred and went again and seemed [at the photos] I used to be like, yeah, he is proper there,” Rhonda Campbell instructed KCRA 3. “They’re priceless however they’re unhappy.”
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Campbell started volunteering with MADD in 2016 and have become an worker in 2017.
She joined the group to show her household’s ache into motion. In 1981, her 12-year-old sister was killed by a four-time repeat drunk driving offender.
Campbell and her mom Kathleen Harris had been with Lenehan at December’s DUI checkpoint and opened as much as him about their beloved one.
“There is a distinction between any individual saying ‘I am sorry’ and conveying the sensation of ‘I am sorry,'” Campbell defined. “He was real; we felt that from him.”
“He wasn’t a stranger,” Harris mentioned. “I used to be simply actual snug round him as a result of I do not discuss her with lots of people.”
The mother-daughter pair say they help and love Lenehan’s household and can “proceed to combat this battle” so no different households need to lose a beloved one to an impaired driver.
The Elk Grove Police Division arrange a brand new memorial for Officer Lenehan Monday night time.
This content material is imported from Twitter.
You could possibly discover the identical content material in one other format, otherwise you could possibly discover extra data, at their web page.
It’s situated contained in the 8380 Laguna Palms Manner constructing close to the EGPD essential foyer.
Will probably be open to the general public from 8:00 a.m. to eight:00 p.m. till the officer’s funeral.
As of Monday night time, funeral preparations haven’t been launched by the household.
