The Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The Indiana State Police Board on Monday honored a state trooper killed in the line of duty last December.
The board presented a memorial resolution to the family of Trooper Scott Patrick, a three-year veteran of the department who was shot by a driver he had stopped to help on an exit ramp of Interstate 80/94 in Gary.
“Trooper Patrick paid the ultimate price in service to our department and the people of Indiana,” State Police Superintendent Melvin Carraway said. “His family has lost a husband, father, son and brother, who touched their lives in so many ways.”
A Chicago man has pleaded innocent to charges he killed Patrick, 27, of Wheatfield. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against 19-year-old Darryl Jeter in the case.
Authorities have said the car Jeter was driving had been reported stolen in Chicago six days earlier.
The State Police Board on Monday also honored Senior Trooper Ronald Galaviz, who rescued a woman whose car was sinking into a retention pond in northeastern Indiana’s Noble County.