Back on Jan. 11 a man in Alexandria, VA carjacked a Cadillac from a McDonald's parking lot. Occurring at the height of the morning rush hour, there were plenty of witnesses who quickly called police. Within minutes, officers from three different jurisdictions were in pursuit of the car. The carjacker, desperate to get away, ended up headed the wrong direction into a parking lot of one of the most heavily guarded places on Earth: The Pentagon. He eventually crashed the vehicle and was quickly subdued.

Normally this is the type of story that ends with a chuckle and a comment about how stupid criminals can be.

"Normally."

In this particular case, however, the story had a decidedly sad twist to it, for just before crashing, the suspect hit a Pentagon Police officer.

That officer, James Feltis, died yesterday afternoon without ever having regained consciousness.