NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) - The Latest on the death of a North Las Vegas police detective (all times local):
2:54 p.m.
The North Las Vegas Police Department has identified a detective fatally injured on duty in an automobile collision as a 10-year member of the force.
The department says Detective Chad Parque (Par-KAY’) died Saturday morning, about 12 hours after the Friday afternoon three-vehicle collision in which he was one of four people injured.
The department says Parque was 32 and was a husband and father.
According to the department, Parque had left a courthouse before his police vehicle collided with a car going the wrong way on North Martin Luther King Boulevard. A third vehicle struck Parque’s vehicle after the initial collision.
The department says funeral services will be announced at a later date.
12:35 p.m.
The North Las Vegas Police Department says a detective has died after being injured in a three-vehicle car crash while on duty.
The name of the detective who died at a hospital early Saturday morning about 12 hours after the crash Friday afternoon was not immediately released.
According to the department, the detective was injured in a collision involving a car being driven the wrong way. A third car was also struck.
Police said the woman driving the wrong-way car was hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries and that circumstances of the crash were unclear.
A police spokesman said a person in the third vehicle suffered minor injuries.
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