>> THIS IS KCRA 3. WE BINEG WITH BREAKING NEWS. >> WE ARE DEEPLY SADDENED,E GRIEVE FOR OUR FAMILY, FOR OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT FAMILY, FOR THE FAMILY OF OUR OFFIR CEAND FO OUR COMMUNITY. BRIAN: LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS ACROSS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ARE HEARTBROKEN THIS EVENING. THEY'RE MOURNING THE LOSS OF ONE OF THEIR OWN IN A WRONG WAY CRASH ON HIGHWAY 99 THIS MOG.IN AN ELK GROVE POLICE OFFICER IDENTIFIED AT TYLER LENEHAN WAS HIT AND KILLED BY A SUSPECTED DRUNK DRIVER. WHO WAS GOING THE WRONG WAY ON HIGHWA.Y 99 EDIE: LIVE CONTINUER 3 WAS OVERHAND AS THE OFFICER WAS TAKEN FROM THE HOSPITAL TO THE CORONER'S OFFICE. FELLOW OFFICERS ON MOTORCYCLES, LEADING THE Y. BRIAN: AND MORE OFFICERS FOLLOWED THAT AMBULANCE WITH OTHERS STANDING AT ATTENTION, AS THE PROCESSION DROVE BY. ONE FINAL SALUTE TO THE SIX YEAR VETERAN OFHE T DEPARTMENT. OFFICER TY LENEHAN WAS ON HIS WAY TO WORK TSHI MORNI,NG ABOUT 5:15, HEADED OUT TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY, WHEN THE CRASH HAPPENED. THE CHIEF SAYING TODAY THIS IS THE FIRST DEATH OF AN ELK GRIVE OFFIR. EDIE: THE MAN ACCUSED OF HITTING HIM IS SUSPECTED OF DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE AND IS NOW IN JAIL FACING SEVERAL CHARGES, INCLUDING MURDER. WE HAVE LIVE TEAM COVERAGE OF THE CRASH THE OFFICER AND THE INVESTIGATION. BRIAN: LET'S BEGIN WITH KACR -- 3'S STEPHANIE LIN. SHE'S LIVEN. I ELK GRE.OV STEPHANIE? REPORTER: YEAH, WE JUST HEARD OMFRHE T CHEAP NOT TOO LONG AGO, DELIVERING THE VERY SOMBENG NEWS THAT HIS OFFICERYLER T LINEHAN PASSED THIS MORNI.NG FITRS RESPONDERS RESPONDED TO THAT AND WE HEAV SOME REPORTS FROM THE PRESS CONFERENCE AND THE RECESSION THAT FOLLOWED TSHI MORNING. THIS IS OFFICER LYNN HAPPEN HA -- LINEHAN. AGAIN. HE PASSED THIS MORNING AFTER THE HEAD ON HIT BY WRONG-WAY DRIVER AT ABOUT5 -- 1 5:15 THIS MORNING ON HIS WAY TO WORK. AS FOR THE PROCESSNIOHAT T FOLLOWED AT U.C. DAVIS MEDICAL CENTER, DOZENS OF OFFICERS FROM SACRAMTOEN P.D., GULF AND ELK GROVE P.,.D OFFICERS SALUTED THE MOTOR CADE AS IT WENT BY AND MANY OFFICERS LOOKING ON WITH THEIR ARMS AROUND EACH OTHER. OFFICER LINEHAN ACTUALLY SERDVEO THE POLICE FORCEN I CITRUS HEIGHTS AND THEN HE JOINED THE ELK GROVE PICOLE FORCE IN 2016. HE'S A SIX-YEAR VETERAN OF THE ELK GROVE P.D. FAMILY AND THE CHIEF TOLD US THAT C.H.P., FIRE DAN EMERGENCY WORKERS WORKED TIRELY -- TIRELESYSL TO TRY TO SAVE HIS LIFE B HEUT DID SUCCUMB TO HIS INJURIES. >> OFFICER TY LINEHAN WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR HIS INFECTIOUS SMILE,IS H GENUINE AND LOYAL HEART AND HIS LOVE FORIS H GOD, HISAMY F, HIS PROFESSION, AND THIS COMMUNITY. WHILEE W WILL GRIEVE TOGETHER AND WE WILL MOURN TOGETHER, WE WILL ALSO REMEMBER TOGETRHE THE SACRIFICE OF OFFICER TYLER ACCOUNTY" T LINEHAN. REPORTER: OFFICERIN LEHAN DOES LEAVE BEHIND A WIFE AND TWO VERY YOUNG CHILDREN. MORE ON HIS STORY LATER TONIGHT ON KCRA 3. BRIAN: WHAT HAVE YOU BEENBL AE TO LEARN ABOUT THE ACTUAL CRASH ITSE, LFWHAT HAPPENED THIS MORNING AND WHAT ABOUT THIS DRIVER? WHAT DUE WE KNOW THERE? REPORTER: AT THIS POINT I CAN TELL YOU OUR UNDERSTANDING IS THAT IT HAPPENED AT AROUND 5:15 THIS MORNING. A SUSPECT HAS BEEN ARREED OSTN D.U.U. -- D.U.I.-RELATED CHGEARS. THAT SUSPECTS, POLICE SAY, WAS DRIVING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION ON HIGHWAY 99 WHEN THEY COLLIDED HELD ON WITH OFFICER LINANEH AND WE'REABILITY CO-ING TO FOLLOW THIS AND WORK OUR SOURCE AND IS WE'LL UPDATE YOU WITH ANY MORE INFORMATION WE HAVE ON THAT. EDIE: WE APPRECIATE THAT. THANKS FOR T UPDATE. BRIAN: WE CONTINUE OUR TEAM KONCH -- COVERAGE WITH GULSTAN DART, LIVE IN STUDIO WITH MORE ON THE CRASH, AND THE DRIVER WHO WAS ARRESTED. >> REPORR:TE CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PARATROLL ARRESTED 31-YEAR-OLD JERMAIN WALTON. HE'S NOW IN THE SACRAMENTO COUNTY JAIL. WALTON IS FACING FOUR FELONY CHARGES, INCLUDING MURDER. WRONG WAY DRIVING, AND DUI. THE CRASH HAPPENED AROD UN5-15 THIS MORNINGN OSOUTHBOUND HIGHWAY 99 NEAR 12TH AVENUE. CHP SAYS A DODGE CHALLENGER WAS GOING NORTHBOUND IN THE NUMBER ONE LANE OF SOUTHBOUND HIGHWAY 99. IT CRAED HSHEAD-ON INTO THE OFFICER THROWING HIM FROM SHI -- OICERFF LINEHAN, HORSE GOING TO WORK. HE WAS THROWN FROM HIS BIKE. THE FRONT OF IT DESTROYED, SMASHED TO SMITH MARINES. CHP DETAINED A MAN, LATER IDENTIFIED AS WALTON. THEY SAY HE WAS WALKING AWAY FR TOMHE SCE.NE OFFICERS SAY HE WAS SHOWING SIGNS OF BEING INTOXICATED. HE WILL BE IN COURT FOR THE FIRST TIME ON TUESDAY. BRIAN, EDIE? BRIAN: GULSTAN, WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED ABOUT THE SUSPECT'S PA, STTHIS ISN'T THE FIRST TIME HE'S FACED A DUI CHARGE? REPORTER: THAT'COS RRECT. SACRAMENTO COUNTY COURT RECORDS SHOW WALTON PLEADED NO CONTEST IN 2018 TO A MISDEMEANORHAERG C OF DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE. HE WAS