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4 state police troopers died in line of duty in 2019

Posted January 25, 2020 12:00 am

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Trooper Gerald Ellis of Antioch was killed March 30, 2019, by a wrong-way driver on I-94 near Green Oaks. He was off-duty, driving home in a squad car.

Friday's attack on three retired and current Illinois state troopers in a Lisle cigar bar comes after a year in which four Illinois State Police officers died in the line of duty.

• Trooper Christopher Lambert of Highland Park was killed Jan. 12, 2019, while he was out of his squad providing aid at a crash on I-294. A car tried to drive around the accident scene.

• Trooper Brooke Jones-Story of Stockton, Illinois, was struck by a vehicle March 28, 2019, while out of her vehicle on a traffic stop near Freeport.

• Trooper Gerald Ellis of Antioch was killed March 30, 2019, by a wrong-way driver on I-94 near Green Oaks. He was off-duty, driving home in a squad car.

• Trooper Nicholas J. Hopkins of Waterloo, Illinois, was shot to death Aug. 23, 2019, while serving a search warrant at a home in East St. Louis.

Lambert and Ellis were assigned to ISP District 15, which is based out of Downers Grove.

Trooper Christopher Lambert of Highland Park was killed Jan. 12, 2019, while he was out of his squad providing aid at a crash on I-294. A car tried to drive around the accident scene.

Trooper Brooke Jones-Story of Stockton, Illinois, was killed in the crash that occurred on Route 20 near Route 75 on March 28, 2019, in Freeport, Ill. Jones-Story was inspecting a commercial motor vehicle at the time of the crash.

Trooper Nicholas J. Hopkins, of Waterloo, Illinois, was shot to death Aug. 23, 2019, while serving a search warrant at a home in East St. Louis.

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