Live outside the hayward chp office where they mourn the loss of the officer. Reporter terry so much pain out here mourning the loss of officer camilleri. And mourning for the family who they know and love. Also this woman who saw the whole thing unfold telling her story and feeling for the family tonight. Like we really dont want to be festive. How can we when this poor family, you know, they have to grieve now because of somebodys stupidity. She was driving family members to sfo when she says a red cadillac zipped past her at well over 100mileperhour. She says the swerved left as it approached traffic ahead and then swiftly back to the right before crashing into the chp suv. I remember seeing brake lights. And like smoke. And i guess thats when he rear ended the back of the chp vehicle. And then i just saw the cadillac roll. It was like a movie. And then my husband a yelling he hit a chp. She says the cad lack rolled into a retaining wall and burst into flames. She began yanging on t
To happen. Theyre blaming a drunk driver for a crash that killed a rookie officer, 33yearold Andrew Camilleri. He was sitting in his patrol vehicle on the side of 880 in hayward when it happened. Ian cull is live with reaction from his fellow officers and a woman who saw the crash and tried to help. Reporter certainly an emotional time out here tonight. Its been almost 24 hours since one of their colleagues was killed. People have been stopping by and dropping off flowers to a department in mourning. A somber night in hayward after an officer was killed in the line of duty. Not the way we wanted the community to think of the 2017 Christmas Day holiday. Officer Andrew Camilleri and his partner were parked on the shoulder of 880 southbound looking for speeders when a red cadillac plowed into them. The force shown in their crushed suv. The Police Believe the driver had been drinking and smoking marijuana. Allison selenas saw it all unfold. I saw brake lights and smoke. Reporter she said t
They begin to plan for the funeral of officer camilleri. I spoke to some people earlier. They say several people have been tasked from the department to plan the funeral. Theyll be meeting later this morning to finalize plans. In fact, captain from the napa chp division is here to help oversee the department so the Hayward Union can plan for logistics. I was likely told this is going to be a big funeral, as most are when an officer dies in the line of duty. It will be wellattended by Law Enforcement from across the country. As weve been reporting, officer camilleri was killed on Christmas Eve when he and his partner were parked on i880 in hayward, ironically looking for impaired drivers. Thats when they were hit from behind by a driver who allegedly was driving drunk and who was high on marijuana. Witnesses say that driver was also speeding. The investigation shut down all southbound lanes of traffic for more than ten hours. Camilleri was in the front passenger seat of his car, his par