Canine Officer Michael Colangelo, 31, and Detective John Martinez, 39, were killed on 5/20/18 in a vehicle crash in Ulster County in upstate New York. Canine Officer Colangelo had just been married that day at the Full Moon Resort in Big Indian, NY. Officer Colangelo was a K9 trainer and in the Special Operations Division assigned to the 84th Precinct. John Martinez was also assigned to the Special Operations Division and with the 84th Precinct. Officer Colangelo was driving a 2018 Maserati which “struck a large tree before overturning and coming to rest on its roof” on Oliveria Road in Shandaken, Ulster County. State police responded to the scene at 11:23 p.m., and Colangelo and Martinez were pronounced dead at the scene. Both Officer Colangelo and Detective Martinez were not wearing their seatbelts. A third passenger who was riding in the back seat, Cody Kalina, 28, was wearing a seat belt was taken to Albany Medical Center with non life-threatening injuries. The “victims were coming from the reception at the time of the fatal crash,” and the Maserati had been rented. Officer Colangelo leaves behind his wife, Katherine Berger and his K9 Jimbo.
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