JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – A Jackson police officer has died after a motorcycle accident earlier in the week.
Corporal Allen Harper, Jr. got into a motorcycle accident on April 1. He had been on the Jackson police force since 1995.
The Clarion-Ledger reports (http://on.thec-l.com/2nm5olv) that Harper was off-duty at the time of the accident and on his personal bike. Police say a gold sedan collided with Harper’s bike.
A GoFundMe account has been set up by his family. Harper was married and a father of four children.
Harper died Friday at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, where he was taken after the accident. Funeral arrangements have not been finalized.
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