Duty Death: Vernell Brown, Jr. - [New Orleans]
End of Service: 17/07/2015
By Police1 Staff
NEW ORLEANS — An officer with the New Orleans Police Department died Friday – almost a week after being struck by a vehicle and falling into a coma.
According to WDSU, 47-year-old Officer Vernell Brown was investigating a vehicle on fire July 12 when a car struck him.
The 17-year veteran of the police department was reportedly one of the best fatality reconstruction investigators the agency ever had.