Funeral Services Held for Officer Nadine Arango
Nadine Arango, the Los Angeles police officer who died last week after intentionally ramming her car into a freeway support column as police and witnesses watched, was buried Wednesday after a funeral attended by about 300 people, including 150 uniformed officers.
Funeral services for Arango, 25, were held at San Fernando Mission Rey Chapel. She was buried at nearby San Fernando Mission cemetery, police said.
Arango, who was born in Medellin, Colombia, was a four-year veteran of the LAPD assigned to the Foothill Division’s domestic violence unit.
On May 26, shortly before ending her shift, she called her estranged husband, California Highway Patrol Officer William Badgerow, and expressed suicidal thoughts, authorities said.
Badgerow alerted officers, who located Arango driving near her Sun Valley home. They followed Arango until she stopped on Hollywood Way, where police tried to coax her out of her car. But she accelerated and slammed head-on into a concrete support beneath the Golden State Freeway.
On Tuesday, coroner’s investigators ruled Arango’s death a suicide and said the cause of death was head injuries. In addition to her estranged husband, Arango is survived by her brother Andre and an aunt.
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