Randall "Randy" Phillips, age 55, a retired Azusa police officer, was killed on impact September 12, 2009 6:30 a.m. by a wrong-way hit-and-run driver in a Los Angeles car accident on the 60 Freeway in Pomona. Phillips was riding his motorcycle west on the 60 and on the connector road to the northbound 71 when he was hit head-on by a car driving the wrong way. Phillips was killed instantly. The driver then fled the scene of the crash.
Azusa police officer, 29 years of service: 1975 to retirement 2004 - retirement rank: Corporal
Taught at San Gabriel Valley Law Enforcement Explorer Academy in Arcadia for 25 years.
Survived by his wife Cindy Phillips, daughter Melissa Souza, granddaughter born a year and a half after his death.
In honor of Randy, the San Gabriel Valley Law Enforcement Explorer Academy now presents a "Randy Phillips Memorial Award" each year to the explorer student who scores the highest marks in first aid.
Randy's mother passed away one week later on September 19th, 2009 at the age of 79.
The perpetrator of the accident sentenced in 2011 to 15 years to life in prison after pleading "no contest" to charges of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and felony hit-and-run. He was released 11/25/16 after only 5 1/2 years thanks to California's Proposition 57 that had just passed by 65% of voters that same month.
Tribute from Azusa Police Department six years later:
https://azusapd.org/press-releases/remembering-corporal-randy-phillips
Cremains disposition:
His daughter Melissa has a small urn with some, some mixed with his mother's & spread at sea, some mixed some with his father's; his nephew, Brandon Laird, a helicopter pilot, & Randy's widow, Cindy, spread them over the Pacific ocean off of the Southern California Coast; most were spread on a hillside under a pine tree in South Dakota with a cross a friend made - Randy had been looking forward to a 2010 Bike Rally there.
Randall "Randy" Phillips, age 55, a retired Azusa police officer, was killed on impact September 12, 2009 6:30 a.m. by a wrong-way hit-and-run driver in a Los Angeles car accident on the 60 Freeway in Pomona. Phillips was riding his motorcycle west on the 60 and on the connector road to the northbound 71 when he was hit head-on by a car driving the wrong way. Phillips was killed instantly. The driver then fled the scene of the crash.
Azusa police officer, 29 years of service: 1975 to retirement 2004 - retirement rank: Corporal
Taught at San Gabriel Valley Law Enforcement Explorer Academy in Arcadia for 25 years.
Survived by his wife Cindy Phillips, daughter Melissa Souza, granddaughter born a year and a half after his death.
In honor of Randy, the San Gabriel Valley Law Enforcement Explorer Academy now presents a "Randy Phillips Memorial Award" each year to the explorer student who scores the highest marks in first aid.
Randy's mother passed away one week later on September 19th, 2009 at the age of 79.
The perpetrator of the accident sentenced in 2011 to 15 years to life in prison after pleading "no contest" to charges of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and felony hit-and-run. He was released 11/25/16 after only 5 1/2 years thanks to California's Proposition 57 that had just passed by 65% of voters that same month.
Tribute from Azusa Police Department six years later:
https://azusapd.org/press-releases/remembering-corporal-randy-phillips
Cremains disposition:
His daughter Melissa has a small urn with some, some mixed with his mother's & spread at sea, some mixed some with his father's; his nephew, Brandon Laird, a helicopter pilot, & Randy's widow, Cindy, spread them over the Pacific ocean off of the Southern California Coast; most were spread on a hillside under a pine tree in South Dakota with a cross a friend made - Randy had been looking forward to a 2010 Bike Rally there.
