Yesterday was the funeral for Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Kara Kelly-Borgeone, who was involved in a collision February 20. The crash did not immediately kill her.
She was placed on life-support after it was found that her brain had died from the injuries she sustained in the accident. It wasn’t until Thursday of the same week that she was taken off life-support and the rest of her body caught up with her brain.
Her organs were harvested and through that action she has possibly saved the lives of several other people in the world. Too bad she had to die to make such a great impact on a few hundred strangers’ lives.
Back in 2006 Kara was involved in a shooting after she and her partner attempted to arrest a parole. At the time she was working for Nevada Parole and Probation or perhaps Washoe County either way when the parole attempted to take her pistol out of her holster a struggle started.
The parolee was shot in the head during the struggle, but kept charging her. She was forced to shoot the man in the chest three times.
He later died at the hospital.
It was the first and only time I ever spoke to her. I remember thinking that Kara was both beautiful and tough.
What will be interesting to learn is how come she had to die. The state is looking at the accident itself.
Yes, that did kill her but why was she rolling Code-3 north on Pyramid Highway to begin with?
A call had come in about a mysterious plastic cooler that the employees saw about 100 feet or so from their store. The store in question is Terrible’s, at the corner of Pyramid and La Posada Drive, in an on going construction zone.
When the Consolidated Bomb Unit arrived on scene and blew the suspicious container up, they discovered it held a core sample of concrete. Contractors place these samples in these containers, tape them shut and label them to learn how the concrete is curing.
This is where the state ought to investigate. In my estimation, Kara died for little more than a piece of concrete and the over zealous wish to blow the hell cut cf something.
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