Bio & Incident Details
Age: 24
Tour: 8 months
Badge # 35
Cause: Automobile accident
Incident Date: 5/4/2002
Weapon: Not available
Suspect: Not available
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Officer Kristin Pataki was killed in an automobile accident while responding to backup another officer at Little Bennett Regional Park's golf course in Clarksburg, Maryland.
Her patrol car left the wet roadway on Clarksburg Road and struck a tree on the driver's side at approximately 2200 hours. The officer she was enroute to assist, was investigating two suspicious men who turned out to be a known drug dealer and a known drug user.
Officer Pataki was the first officer with the Maryland-National Capital Park Police to be killed in the line of duty. She had been an officer with her agency for eight months, and is survived by her fiance and parents.
