She was a 65-year-old grandmother walking through her Clifton neighborhood, as she did every evening for exercise.

He was a four-year veteran of the city’s police force, rushing to respond to a report of an attempted carjacking.

That night in 2020, their lives painfully intersected when Officer Garrell Middleton lost control of his police SUV at high speed, fatally striking Sook Hee Lee on the sidewalk. His patrol car crossed into oncoming traffic lanes, jumped a curb and collided with Lee and then a house.