Johnny_Blaze_47
10-14-2005, 06:00 AM
This is the WOAI.com story. They don't identify the officer in the story, but a little research shows that he was Ofc. John Wheeler.
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SAPD Officer Killed in Wreck
LAST UPDATE: 10/14/2005 5:54:24 AM
Posted By: Jim Forsyth
This story is available on your cell phone at mobile.woai.com.
A veteran San Antonio Police Officer was killed today when his patrol car was rear ended by a motorist on Loop 410.
Detectives tell 1200 WOAI's Michael Main the officer was sitting in his Crown Victoria police cruiser on the shoulder of Loop 410 near Culebra Road about 2:30 this morning when a driver came up behind him at a high rate of speed and slammed into the back of his car.
Both vehicles burst into flames, and the officer and the other driver were pronounced dead at the scene.
The officer's wife is a San Antonio Police dispatcher, who was on duty at the time of the accident
The officer barely dodged death two years ago when he was shot in the neck after surprising burglars breaking into a southwest side gas station. The burglars fired some twenty rounds into his patrol car.
The accident forced to closing of Loop 410 southbound at Culebra for several hours.
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Godspeed, Officer Wheeler.
http://images.ibsys.com/2003/0930/2520786_200X150.jpg
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SAPD Officer Killed in Wreck
LAST UPDATE: 10/14/2005 5:54:24 AM
Posted By: Jim Forsyth
This story is available on your cell phone at mobile.woai.com.
A veteran San Antonio Police Officer was killed today when his patrol car was rear ended by a motorist on Loop 410.
Detectives tell 1200 WOAI's Michael Main the officer was sitting in his Crown Victoria police cruiser on the shoulder of Loop 410 near Culebra Road about 2:30 this morning when a driver came up behind him at a high rate of speed and slammed into the back of his car.
Both vehicles burst into flames, and the officer and the other driver were pronounced dead at the scene.
The officer's wife is a San Antonio Police dispatcher, who was on duty at the time of the accident
The officer barely dodged death two years ago when he was shot in the neck after surprising burglars breaking into a southwest side gas station. The burglars fired some twenty rounds into his patrol car.
The accident forced to closing of Loop 410 southbound at Culebra for several hours.
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Godspeed, Officer Wheeler.