{"id":68378,"date":"2024-03-03T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/state-trooper-killed-in-marysville-crash-a-kentlake-high-school-graduate\/"},"modified":"2024-03-03T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T19:01:00","slug":"state-trooper-killed-in-marysville-crash-a-kentlake-high-school-graduate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/state-trooper-killed-in-marysville-crash-a-kentlake-high-school-graduate\/","title":{"rendered":"State trooper killed in Marysville crash a Kentlake High School graduate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t
A driver struck and killed Washington State Patrol trooper Chris Gadd early Saturday, March 2 shutting down southbound Interstate 5 for hours near Marysville.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
Gadd, 27, had been stopped along the right shoulder of the freeway near 136th Street NE, on routine patrol for DUI drivers.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
Just before 3 a.m., Snohomish County sheriff’s deputies found the trooper had been hit by an SUV, sheriff’s spokesperson Courtney O’Keefe told reporters at a press conference Saturday. The SUV was believed to be traveling “at a high rate of speed” when it veered to the right, O’Keefe said.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
After the initial crash, the SUV “became disabled and a van traveling southbound collided with it,” according to the sheriff’s office.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
The driver of the van was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, the sheriff’s office said. The five passengers in the van were not injured.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t