LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Flags across Michigan will be lowered to half-staff on Friday to honor the life of Motor Carrier Officer Daniel M. Kerstetter.
Officer Kerstetter died after conducting a traffic stop with a semi-truck on Friday, Sept. 13. Another driver struck his patrol car. Emergency responders pronounced the driver dead at the scene; Officer Kerstetter was sent to the local hospital with life-threatening injuries, where he later was taken off life support.
A public visitation will take place on Thursday at Chas. Verheyden Inc. funeral home in Grosse Pointe Park from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. A funeral service is scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday at St. Paul on the Lake Catholic Church in Grosse Pointe Farms.