Corporal John Jay Sampietro Jr.

Corporal Sampietro was struck by a vehicle on Interstate 44 in Webster County, near Strafford, Missouri. He was assisting his agency's Major Crash Investigation Team by directing traffic at the site of an earlier fatal traffic crash.

Corporal Sampietro was transported to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.

The driver of the vehicle which struck Corporal Sampietro pled guilty to a class D felony of second-degree involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to five years supervised probation and seven days of shock incarceration in the Webster County Jail.