Important UPDATE!!!!
Kevvboy has started a diary with links on contributing to the family.
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Please contribute if you can.
Around 4:40 PM Sunday, Police Officer Bruce St. Laurent was killed while riding his police motorcycle in the President Obama Motorcade near West Palm Beach Florida. He was struck and killed by a white pickup truck while performing his duties on I-95.
From CNN http://www.cnn.com/...
The officer from the Jupiter, Florida, police department was transported around 4:40 p.m. to St. Mary's Medical Center in nearby West Palm Beach after being critically injured in a crash. The man -- identified as Officer Bruce St. Laurent -- later died at the hospital, Jupiter police Chief Frank Kitzerow told reporters late Sunday
Obama was notified of the death, White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters after Air Force One landed in Washington. The president's thoughts and prayers are with the officer's family, according to the spokesman.
The President did not see the accident. No other motorcade vehicles were involved.
Please put Officer St. Laurent and his family in your prayers...
Please no politics.
Mon Sep 10, 2012 at 4:13 AM PT:
The Jupiter Florida Police Department has started a tribute page to
Officer St. Laurent. He was the father of 4 children.
http://www.jupiter.fl.us/...