01-22-2012, 07:33 PM
RIP
![[Image: davis_1.jpg]](http://media.staradvertiser.com/images/300*364/davis_1.jpg)
staradvertiser.com.
Hawaii
Police Chief Louis Kealoha identified the officer who was killed Saturday night while helping stranded motorists on the H-1 freeway as 3-year patrol officer Garret Davis as Kealoha urged Honolulu drivers to drive more carefully.
"People gotta slow down on the highways," Kealoha said today at HPD headquarters, where a memorial to Davis was set up.
Davis, 28, graduated from the HPD academy in 2008 with the 161st cadet class.
He grew up in Folsom, Calif., attended San Francisco State University and moved to Honolulu to join the police department, HPD spokeswoman Caroline Sluyter said.
Davis has a young daughter who lives in California, Sluyter said. Services are pending.
Davis was assigned to the Wahiawa sub-station and was delivering paperwork to the main headquarters on Beretania Street when he stopped in the far, left-hand lane of the east-bound, H-1 freeway at the Kaonohi Street overpass in Aiea to help a 32-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman in a stalled vehicle, Kealoha said.
He had turned on the blue lights to his patrol car when he was allegedly struck from behind by a 41-year-old man driving a Chevrolet Silverado, Kealoha said.
"Officer Davis turned on his blue lights and stopped behind the stalled vehicle to shield it from on-coming traffic and to alert other drivers to the stall," Kealoha said.
Davis' patrol car was then rammed into the stalled vehicle and caught on fire, Kealoha said.
"He didn't even have a chance to get out," Kealoha said.
Emergency Medical Services personnel said the officer's car was hit at 8:19 p.m., sending it crashing into a pickup truck.
The couple Davis was trying to help was taken to a hospital in guarded condition, Kealoha said.
staradvertiser.com.
Hawaii
Police Chief Louis Kealoha identified the officer who was killed Saturday night while helping stranded motorists on the H-1 freeway as 3-year patrol officer Garret Davis as Kealoha urged Honolulu drivers to drive more carefully.
"People gotta slow down on the highways," Kealoha said today at HPD headquarters, where a memorial to Davis was set up.
Davis, 28, graduated from the HPD academy in 2008 with the 161st cadet class.
He grew up in Folsom, Calif., attended San Francisco State University and moved to Honolulu to join the police department, HPD spokeswoman Caroline Sluyter said.
Davis has a young daughter who lives in California, Sluyter said. Services are pending.
Davis was assigned to the Wahiawa sub-station and was delivering paperwork to the main headquarters on Beretania Street when he stopped in the far, left-hand lane of the east-bound, H-1 freeway at the Kaonohi Street overpass in Aiea to help a 32-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman in a stalled vehicle, Kealoha said.
He had turned on the blue lights to his patrol car when he was allegedly struck from behind by a 41-year-old man driving a Chevrolet Silverado, Kealoha said.
"Officer Davis turned on his blue lights and stopped behind the stalled vehicle to shield it from on-coming traffic and to alert other drivers to the stall," Kealoha said.
Davis' patrol car was then rammed into the stalled vehicle and caught on fire, Kealoha said.
"He didn't even have a chance to get out," Kealoha said.
Emergency Medical Services personnel said the officer's car was hit at 8:19 p.m., sending it crashing into a pickup truck.
The couple Davis was trying to help was taken to a hospital in guarded condition, Kealoha said.