Overview
- Officers, family, and friends gathered on Christmas Eve for a remembrance at the permanent memorial outside LMPD’s 2nd Division headquarters at 3419 Bohne Ave.
- Detective Deidre Mengedoht was killed on Dec. 24, 2018 when an MSD truck struck her unmarked cruiser during a traffic stop on I-64 in downtown Louisville.
- The impact caused the cruiser to catch fire, and Mengedoht died at the scene between Fourth Street and Sixth Street.
- MSD driver Roger Burdette was convicted of murder and related charges and is serving a 27-year prison term after courts, including the Kentucky Supreme Court, upheld the verdict.
- At trial, prosecutors presented evidence that Burdette had taken drugs and was watching pornography on his cellphone before the crash; LMPD has since held annual remembrances and dedicated a 2nd Division gym and a stretch of I-64 in her honor.