Fernando Jimenez-Jimenez, a Mexican national who had been deported twice, killed an off-duty Las Vegas police officer in a wrong-way DUI crash.
An illegal migrant who killed an off-duty Las Vegas police officer in a wrong-way crash this month had been deported twice — but kept sneaking back into the country, authorities said. Mexican citizen Fernando Jimenez-Jimenez, 31, was driving his Ford F-150 the wrong way on Interstate 15 on Dec. 12 when his vehicle crashed head on with Officer Colton Pulsipher, who was heading home from his shift.
Jimenez entered the US twice in 2019, when he was deported back to Mexico each time, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said. Jimenez later applied for admission into the US in Brownsville, Texas, in 2020, but failed to show for his immigration hearing a year later leading the judge to order his deportation in his absence, ICE said. But by that time, he was already roaming the country. Pulsipher had served as an officer with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, “where he worked tirelessly to protect and serve” his community since 2017, the department said. Pulsipher was laid to rest on Dec. 18, escorted by his fellow officers. “As we honor his legacy, we remember a man who truly embodied the spirit of service”, LVMPD said in a post
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