Sheriff's deputy fatally struck while assisting stranded motorist: Officials

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Corporal Blake Reynolds was deed by a semitruck connected Wednesday morning.

November 12, 2025, 10:53 AM

A semitruck fatally struck a sheriff's lawman successful Indiana portion helium was assisting a stranded motorist on an interstate, according to section officials.

"This is simply a heartbreaking nonaccomplishment for our instrumentality enforcement household and for the full Delaware County community," Jeff Stanley, the main lawman for the Delaware County Sheriff's Office, said successful a connection connected Wednesday.

The calamity occurred successful the aboriginal hours of Wednesday morning, aft officials received calls astatine astir 3:30 a.m. of a disabled conveyance on Interstate 69, officials said.

The Delaware County sheriff's deputy, who was identified arsenic Corporal Blake Reynolds, responded to the country and recovered a semitruck partially successful the roadway, officials said.

The lawman stopped down the disabled conveyance to "provide extortion for the driver" and activated his exigency lights, Indiana State Police Sgt. Scott Keegan said during a property league connected Wednesday.

While Reynolds was extracurricular his vehicle, different semitruck traveling northbound "lost power and collided with the deputy's conveyance and the disabled semi that was connected the broadside of the road," Keegan said, calling the clang a "tragic event."

"Despite contiguous exigency effect efforts, the lawman did not past his injuries," Stanley said.

The operator who struck Reynolds was transported to a section infirmary and was undergoing surgery, but Keegan said his aesculapian information is not known astatine this time.

The sheriff's officials said nary further details connected the clang volition beryllium provided astatine this clip "out of respect for the ongoing probe and the family's privacy."

Reynolds joined the Delaware County Sheriff's Office successful 2022 and "quickly distinguished himself done his hard work, professionalism and leadership," the sheriff's bureau said successful a statement.

"His passing is an immeasurable nonaccomplishment to his family, his brothers and sisters successful azygous and the full assemblage helium served with pride," Stanley said.