Governor M. Jodi Rell has ordered that all Connecticut and U.S. flags should be flown at half staff following the death of Kenneth Hall, a veteran trooper who was killed Thursday when his car was struck on the shoulder of Interstate 91 in Enfield.
Hall, who had been assigned to the traffic squad, had been processing paperwork on the side of the road after a routine traffic stop when his police cruiser was hit from behind. The cruiser was damaged so badly that it was unrecognizable as a Connecticut State Police vehicle.
A member of the Troop H barracks in Hartford, Hall was well known in the law enforcement community.
Insiders believe that the driver of the pick-up truck that hit Hall had been distracted before his truck went off the highway and hit Hall's cruiser along the highway's shoulder.