Officer who grew up in New Hampshire killed in line of duty in Virginia

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>> I CAME INTO MY OFFICE AND CLOSED THE DOOR AND I CRIED. JUST DEVASTATED. >> ABBEY SLOPER KEEPS A PICTURE IN HER OFFICE OF KATIE THYNE TAKEN WITH HER DURING THE 2013 ALVIRNE HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR PRO SLOPER AT THE TIME WAS AN ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AT ALVIRNE AND THE TWO GREW CLOSE. SLOPER LEARNED FRIDAY MORNING THAT THYNE WAS KILLED DURING A TRAFFIC STOP WORKING AS A NEWPORT NEWS VIRGINIA POLICE OFFICER. >> TO BE SO YOUNG AND HAVE SO MUCH POTENTIAL AND TO GIVE BACK TO HER COUNTRY, TO HER COMMUNITY AND AS A MOM, IT JUST BREAKS MY HEART. I DON’T HAVE THE WORDS. IT JUST MAKES YOU PUT THINGS INTO PERSPECTIVE. >> BILL HUGHEN WAS THYNE’S GUIDANCE COUNSELOR AT ALVIRNE HE REMEMBERS A YOUNG WOMAN HE DESCRIBES AS FEISTY. >> I COULD SEE INSIDE OF HER A DRIVE. SHE HAD A LITTLE SPICE TO HER BUT SUPER KIND. >> AFTER SERVING IN THE NAVY, THYNE JOINED THE NEWPORT NEWS POLICE LAST YEAR. HER BROTHER TIM SAYS THYNE AND HER PARTNER GOT ENGAGED JUST LAST WEEK. AND THIS WEEK HER DAUGHTER RAEGAN TURNED TWO YEARS OLD. >> SHE ALWAYS SAID SHE WAS GOING TO BE A COP. THAT WAS JUST HER PLAN FROM 15. THAT’S LIKE WHAT SHE DID. >> ALONG WITH HER DAUGHTER THYNE LEAVES BEHIND HER PARTNER, HER MOTHER, BROTHER AND STEP FATHER. REPORTING LIVE IN HUDSON. ANDY HERSHBERGER. WMUR NEWS

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A Virginia police officer who grew up in New Hampshire has been killed in the line of duty.>> Download the FREE WMUR appOfficials said Newport News, Virginia, Officer Katie Thyne was killed Thursday night during a traffic stop. Police said a driver accelerated after an encounter with Thyne, dragging her. She was taken to a nearby hospital, where she died of her injuries.The driver fled the scene before crashing a short time later. He was taken into custody, police said."I came into my office and closed the door, and I cried," said former Alvirne High School assistant principal Abbey Sloper. "Just devastated."Sloper keeps a picture in her office of Thyne that was taken with her during the 2013 Alvirne High School senior prom. Thyne graduated from the school that year."To be so young and have so much potential and to give back to her country, to her community, and as a mom, it just breaks my heart," Sloper said. "I don't have the words. It just makes you put things into perspective."Bill Hughen was Thyne's guidance counselor at Alvirne. He remembered a young woman he described as feisty."I could see inside of her a drive," Hughen said. "She had a little spice to her but was super kind."After serving in the Navy, Thyne joined the Newport News police last year. Her brother, Tim Thyne, said his sister and her partner got engaged last week. Her daughter, Raegan, turned 2 years old this week."She always said she was going to be a cop," Tim Thyne said. "That was just her plan from 15. That's, like, what she did."Along with her daughter, Thyne leaves behind her partner, her mother, brother and stepfather.