Galt Officers Harminder Grewal And Kapri Herrera Remain In ICU Following Head-On Crash

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GALT (CBS13) — The Galt assemblage is coming unneurotic for 2 officers who were earnestly wounded successful a deadly head-on clang connected Highway 99 adjacent Dillard Road implicit the weekend.

Officer Kapri Herrera (credit: Galt Police Department)

The Galt Police Department identified the officers arsenic Harminder Grewal and Kapri Herrera.

“Hoping they volition beryllium location soon,” said Lori Martin, the proprietor of Sheila’s Country Rose Florist successful Galt.

Martin knows conscionable however acold kindness tin spell and thinks astir the officers’ kindness that was chopped abbreviated implicit the play erstwhile the 2 were unexpectedly deed by a pickup motortruck head-on portion heading to assistance with the Caldor Fire.

The operator of the pickup has been identified arsenic 25-year-old Manjot Singh Thind of Manteca, who died connected impact. Two of his passengers were sent to the hospital.

Both officers suffered superior injuries and were taken to UC Davis Medical Center. Their portion was mangled truthful severely, it had to beryllium hoisted connected a tow truck.

“We knew that it wasn’t going to beryllium an casual locomotion distant from this, truthful it was frightening,” Martin said.

She specially crafted arrangements for the officers and their families arsenic a amusement of emotion and support.

“They springiness truthful overmuch backmost to us, protecting america and having to spell done thing similar this,” she explained.

And she’s not the lone 1 giving back.

Officer Harminder Grewal (credit: Galt Police Department)

Christopher Young and Brittany Weldon—both implicit strangers—are present coming unneurotic to grant and commune for the officers.

“We are a peculiar community. I person ne'er lived successful a municipality that has truthful overmuch camaraderie,” Weldon said.

“By the grace of God, God consenting they volition person a bully betterment and marque it done this,” Young said.

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The assemblage volition beryllium gathering extracurricular the Galt Police Department astatine 8:00 p.m. to commune for the officers and their recovery.