{"id":2073592,"date":"2023-10-19T22:43:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T02:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-officer-paralyzed-after-driver-19-intentionally-runs-him-over-police-say\/"},"modified":"2023-10-19T22:43:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T02:43:01","slug":"police-officer-paralyzed-after-driver-19-intentionally-runs-him-over-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-officer-paralyzed-after-driver-19-intentionally-runs-him-over-police-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Officer Paralyzed After Driver, 19, Intentionally Runs Him Over, Police Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolice-officer-paralyzed-after-driver-19-intentionally-runs-him-over-police-say%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2073592&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Maryland police sergeant has lost the use of his legs after being struck by a driver attempting to evade officers.<\/p>\n<p>The motorist, 19-year-old Raphael Mayorga, was taken into custody on charges of attempted murder and multiple traffic violations, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2023\/oct\/18\/teen-leaves-cop-paralyzed-waist-down-after-intenti\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Times<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Police say Mayorga intentionally ran over 36-year-old Sgt. Patrick Kepp.<\/p>\n<p>The incident began early Wednesday morning when Mayorga was spotted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/georgia-man-receives-1-4m-speeding-ticket-wasnt-typo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">speeding<\/a> on Interstate 270. Montgomery County Police Chief Marcus Jones said he was going over 110 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than chase Mayorga, police used stop sticks to try to bring him to a halt. Kepp was in the process of deploying the stop sticks when Mayorga hit him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vehicle [was] observed actually intentionally moving from the middle lanes to the far left lanes and came directly at Sgt. Kepp,\u201d Jones said at a Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A_h31QhFBMo&#038;t=65s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Farther along the highway, Mayorga was apprehended after another officer successfully deployed the stop sticks, disabling his car.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Kepp was transported to a nearby hospital in critical condition. Jones confirmed that Kepp is paralyzed from the waist down.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe police chief said Mayorga is known for provoking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fugitives-bizarre-whiteboard-message-police-backfires-leads-arrest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">police<\/a> into dangerous pursuits.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was driving without a license and already had a number of open driving-related cases against him, including three from April and May, the Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>In one of those incidents, Kepp himself arrested Mayorga for several traffic violations, including driving 136 mph in a 55 mph zone.<\/p>\n<p>Mayorga also pleaded guilty to petty theft in August, according to the Times.<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich said legislation should be passed to address these kinds of incidents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is different than somebody just speeding. This is somebody who\u2019s speeding with the intention of trying to provoke a high-speed chase,\u201d Elrich said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis should not be treated as a regular type of traffic incident, and we should talk to our legislators about a way of criminalizing this in a different way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elrich thanked Kepp for his service, adding, \u201cThis is a sacrifice he should not have had to make.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kepp has been with the police department since 2014.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"author_subscription_pitch\">.author_subscription_pitch p{margin:5px;}<\/p>\n<p><em><b>A Note from Our Deputy Managing Editor:<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What if you woke up one morning and half of the people you count on had just vanished overnight?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That happened to me recently. 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The motorist, 19-year-old Raphael Mayorga, was taken into custody on charges of attempted murder and multiple traffic violations, The Washington Times reported. Police say Mayorga intentionally ran over 36-year-old Sgt. Patrick Kepp. The incident<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2051,"featured_media":2073593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2073592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2051"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2073592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2073593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}