Fallen Ill. trooper sacrificed life to save others from wrong-way driver
By: Ella Torres, New York Daily News
GREEN OAKS, Ill. — Even in his last moments, Trooper Gerald Ellis put the lives of others before himself.
Ellis, an 11-year-veteran with the Illinois State Police, was killed early Saturday after an impaired wrong-way driver struck his squad car head-on Interstate 94 in Lake County, police said. He was rushed to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries but was pronounced dead at 4:04 a.m.
He was headed home at the time of the crash.
In a post commemorating the 36-year-old, Carrie Kay commented with a story of her own — one that she said ended in her daughter’s life being saved.
