Oct 18, 2024
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Kansas City Police Department (KCPD) motorcycle officer who was hit by a driver Wednesday morning, October 16, remains in critical but stable condition. The crash happened around 9:40 a.m. that day. The man who pressed the officer's emergency button on his radio spoke to FOX4 on Friday, October 18. He and one of his coworkers at the property management company 333 Rent came to help right after the crash.  333 Rent Administrative Assistant Jackie Hayes was sitting at her desk Wednesday morning when the crash happened outside. "You could hear like a 'boom,' and that's what triggered us, and we were like, 'Wait,' and I walked around, and then we went outside," Hayes said. KCPD investigating following homicide at 6th and Monroe 333 Rent Maintenance Coordinator Tony Carey followed Jackie out.  "I ran over to the motorcycle first, started pressing buttons on his handset on the motorcycle," he said. "I couldn't get anything, couldn't hear any clicks or nothing." After that, Carey noticed the woman's silver Toyota was still running, so he turned the woman's car off before returning to the motorcycle. "I took her keys to her to make sure she was alright, ran back over to the motorcycle pressing buttons on the motorcycle trying to get help," he said. "At some point I pressed something, and I heard all the sirens in the city open up." KCPD Chief Stacey Graves thanked the civilian who pressed the emergency button on the officer's radio on Wednesday. Carey says officers got to the scene within 45 seconds after that happened. "I don't know what button got pressed, but whatever got pressed, there must have been somebody, an officer within a block or two of here because he was the first on scene," he continued. KCPD Sergeant Phil DiMartino said the unnamed officer who was hit was a 10-year veteran of the department. DiMartino also said he's been in the traffic unit for a year.  
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