Tampa Bay area copes with three law enforcement deaths in three months
Tampa Police Officer Jesse Madsen is the third Tampa Bay area law enforcement officer to die in the line of duty since January. https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-hillsborough/tampa-bay-copes-with-three-law-enforcement-deaths-in-three-months
and last updated 2021-03-10 07:45:13-05
TAMPA, Fla. â Tampa Police Officer Jesse Madsen is the third Tampa Bay area law enforcement officer to die in the line of duty since January.
Tuesday morning just before 1 a.m., the Tampa Police Department says Officer Madsen was struck by a wrong-way driver on Interstate 275.
Investigators believe Madsen intentionally veered his patrol car into the wrong-way driverâs vehicle in an effort to protect other drivers on the interstate. The impact killed both Madsen and the wrong-way driver, Joshua Montague of Golden, Colorado.