Honor Roll 1997

In Loving Memory of
Our Fallen Sisters
           
Erin Marie Hehl
Trooper
State Police, Illinois
Springfield, IL
Date of Death: 10/30/1997
Trooper Hehl was killed on 30 October 1997. She was in the department's helicopter along with a civilian pilot. They were practising circuit landings when the aircraft became entangled in ground debris and flipped over. Erin Hehl had served for 11 years and is survived by her husband and two children.
           
Constable Nina MacKay
Metropolitan Police, London, England.
Constable Nina Mackay was killed on 24 October 1997. She was one of several officers who entered a building in Stratford, East London, searching for a man who had failed to answer his bail conditions. She was unable to operate the door ram while wearing her heavy 15lb armour, and removed it for her second attempt. As the door broke open she fell forwards into the house, where she was stabbed by the occupant waiting behind the door. Her colleagues overpowered the man who is held on a murder charge. In the previous few weeks he had been bailed for theft, and again for assaulting an officer while in possession of a knife. Nina Mackay was 25 years of age, and had served for 5 years. Her brother is also a Metropolitan Police officer, and her father recently retired as a Chief Superintendent in that force.
Emily Jewett Morgenroth
Police Officer
Sacramento, California, P.D.
Sacramento, CA
Officer Morgenroth was killed on 17 October 1997. She was responding to assist colleagues with a felony vehicle stop on a stolen vehicle when a drunk driver pulled into her path. Her patrol car struck the pickup truck and then a utility pole. Emily Morgenroth was 26 years old, and a political science graduate from UCLA. She spent two years in Japan teaching English before coming home with the intention of joining the FBI. She joined the Sacramento PD two years ago in an effort to obtain policing experience for that role. The pickup driver has been charged with causing her death while having a blood alcohol count twice the allowed limit.
Officer Summer Langford

Wichita Police Department, Kansas, USA
Officer Langford was killed on 11 October 1997. She had just completed her patrol and was going off duty when her vehicle was struck by a drunk driver who had failed to comply with a red traffic light signal. The impact killed Summer Langford instantly. She had served with the department for two years.
The drunk driver was arrested at the scene and has charges pending.
           
Mylene G. Zalar
Corrections Officer
Department of Corrections, California
Sacramento, CA
Date of Death: 09/11/1997
           
Officer Sandra M. Wagner
Delaware State Police, Delaware, USA
Officer Wagner was killed on April 28th, 1997. She was running radar and turned after a speeder when her vehicle was struck by a trailer truck. She died at the scene. Officer Wagner had just completed her FTO training 3 days previously.
               
Shirlene A. Jenkins
Corrections Officer
Dept. of Rehabilitation & Correction, Ohio
Columbus, OH
Date of Death: 02/11/1997
                       
"It is not how these officers died that makes them heroes - it is how they lived." - Vivian A. Eney, C.O.P.S.
                       


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