Roll of Honor
Incident
Police Officer Jeffrey Rominger and Trooper Matt Evans, driving separate patrol cars, were killed in a collision in downtown Oklahoma City.
Officer Rominger was chasing a vehicle when the suspect drove onto the off-ramp of I-40 and began to drive the wrong way toward oncoming traffic. During the chase, a tractor-trailer topped a rise in the road and collided with the suspect's vehicle. The suspect's vehicle then struck Trooper Evans' patrol car head-on. Officer Rominger's patrol car then struck the vehicle from the other side, causing all three vehicles to be engulfed in flames.
Trooper Evans was not involved in the chase but was responding to assist another trooper on an unrelated drug-related traffic stop. Both officers' deaths were ruled homicides.
Trooper Evans and the two suspects were pronounced dead at the scene. Officer Rominger was transported to a local hospital where he passed away a short time later.
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Police Officer Rominger gave the Oklahoma City Police Department 2 years.
Thank you for your service to the Oklahoma City community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Police Officer Rominger.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Service Record
Incident Details
Police Officer Jeffrey Dean Rominger is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.
In OK, 135 of 582 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 23.2% of this state's fallen. That is 23.2 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
At Oklahoma City Police Department, 13 of 33 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 39.4% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
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