AKRON, Ohio -- An Akron police officer was hospitalized for minor injuries Thursday afternoon after he was struck in his cruiser while escorting a funeral procession for a woman who police say was killed last week by her firefighter fiancé.

The procession for Olivia Hamey left Newcomer Funeral Home on North Canton Road just before 2 p.m., Akron police said in a news release. Police previously said Hamey, a 35-year-old Aultman Hospital social worker, was shot in the basement of her home by Twinsburg firefighter Demetrius T’Juan Butler. He later shot himself in the chest and died at Summa Akron City Hospital.

About a block north of the funeral home, as the procession drove north on Darrow Road, a 21-year-old Akron woman driving a Chevrolet Malibu struck the officer’s marked cruiser, police reported.

A woman struck a marked Akron police cruiser Thursday afternoon during the funeral procession for Olivia Hamey.

With damage to the driver’s side door, the officer was initially trapped in the car, police said. First responders were able to remove him from the cruiser and bring him to Akron City Hospital.

The woman and her passenger were brought to Cleveland Clinic Akron General with minor injuries, police said.

The driver was cited for left turn into approaching traffic, driving on a suspended driver’s license and right-of-way for a funeral procession, according to police. She also had a warrant for driving on a suspended license from the Copley Police Department, police said.

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