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Police officer dies after being struck by wrong-way driver

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Published 11:25 am

ELK GROVE, Calif. (AP) — A police officer riding a motorcycle to work was killed Friday after being struck by a drunk man driving the wrong way on a Sacramento highway. Elk Grove Police Chief Timothy Albright says Officer Ty Lenehan was a six-year veteran of the department. He was hit around 5:15 a.m. and was taken to a hospital where he died. The California Highway Patrol said 31-year-old Jermaine J. Walton was arrested and booked onto the Sacramento County Main Jail on several felony DUI-related charges. The southbound lanes of Highway 99 were closed for hours.

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