Jamie Huntley-Park and Ryan Park.Photo: San Diego Police Department
A pair of married detectives both beloved in their San Diego community were killed last week after a car crashed into their department sedan head-on.
Jamie Huntley-Park, 33, and her husband Ryan Park, 32, died on Friday morning after a wrong-way driver slammed into their vehicle just before 10:30 a.m., according to theSan Diego Union-Tribune.
San Diego Police Chief David Nisleit reportedly said the couple was off duty, but were working on “follow-up cases” anyway in an unmarked department sedan when the crash — which also killed the driver of the car driving the wrong way — occurred.
“The void in our hearts will be impossible to fill,” the San Diego Police Department wrote onsocial media. “San Diego truly lost two of America’s Finest officers today.”
Huntley-Park was a detective in the department’s Southern Division, while Park was a homicide detective, according to theUnion-Tribune.
The couple reportedly began dating in 2012 while in the San Diego police academy, and even became officers on the same day that April, and detectives on the same day in 2018. They married in February 2016.
“You couldn’t have met two nicer kids,” Nisleit said, according to theUnion-Tribune. “[They] had nothing but their lives ahead of them. Both their lives and their careers were definitely on a very, very rapid trend upward, just doing amazing work.”
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Huntley-Park was an accomplished ice hockey player, and coached and mentored dozens of young girls locally through San Diego Angels Girls Hockey, the group wrote onFacebook.
She also reportedly had dreams of refereeing at the next winter Olympics.
“Ryan and Jamie completed each other in every possible way, and we take comfort knowing that he is with his soulmate,” Park’s brother Justin added in a statement to the outlet. “They did everything together, and they always had a little friendly competition. Right now, we picture them traveling all over heaven, walking among the clouds together, sipping on a beer and some whisky or scotch, which Jamie loved to collect.”
Amemorial fundhas since been arranged for the couple’s families.
source: people.com
