Fallen Jamestown officer to be laid to rest

May 28, 2016 11:31 am

By News Staff

news@abc6.com

The Jamestown police officer killed in a wrong-way crash on interstate 95 is being laid to rest Saturday.

Officials from several police and fire departments gathered at Saints John & Paul Church in Coventry to pay their last respects to Patrolman Ryan Bourque.

Officer Bourque was killed early Monday on I-95 South in East Greenwich on the one-year anniversary of his graduation from the police academy.

Police say the 24-year-old patrolman was heading home to Coventry after finishing up his 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. shift when his car was hit head-on by another vehicle being driven the wrong way. The driver, 23-year-old Dejae Pizarro of Bedford, Massachusetts, was also killed.