POQUOSON, Va. — Raegan Thyne, daughter of fallen Newport News officer Katie Thyne, got a special send-off from the Poquoson Police Department for her first day of Kindergarten.
Law enforcement professionals from Newport News, York County, Hampton, William and Mary, Prince George County and the US Marshals joined Poquoson police to make her first day special.
Raegan was able to meet the officers and give high-fives before venturing to school.
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On January 23, 2020, Thyne responded to a call about two people smoking marijuana in a car near the Monitor Merrimac Overlook. Officer Thyne and another police officer found Green and a woman in the car.
Body camera video showed the officers repeatedly asking, and then ordering Green to get out of the car. The officers tried to pull him out of the vehicle when he did not move, as described in the video.
The car took off shortly after. The vehicle dragged Thyne along with it, and she died after the car crashed into a tree.
A jury found Green guilty of second-degree murder in November 2022 and was sentenced to 40 years in prison for second-degree murder and 10 years in prison for hit and run after he was convicted in the death of Officer Thyne.
