Tunnel to Towers Foundation pays mortgage for family of state trooper killed in 2024
The Tunnel to Towers Foundation will pay the full mortgage for the family of Connecticut State Trooper Aaron Pelletier, the organization announced on Friday.
Pelletier was killed in the line of duty after he was struck by a car while conducting a traffic stop on I-84 East in Southington on May 30, 2024. The driver of the car that hit him left the scene.
The trooper had stopped another driver when a Hartford man, 45-year-old Alex Oyola-Sanchez, drove into the shoulder, hit Pelletier and his vehicle, and kept going until his tire failed on I-84 East in Farmington.
Oyola-Sanchez was sentenced to 18 years in prison last April.
Pelletier was with the state police for nine years and left behind his wife, Dominique, and their two sons.
Tunnel to Towers, which provides mortgage-free homes to Gold Star and fallen first responder families with young children, will also give full scholarships for Pelletier’s children to get undergraduate degrees and certified and accredited trade programs.
“College may be a long way away for my children, but I can already see the cost rising in the next 10 years,” Dominique said in a Tunnel to Towers press release. “By paying for my boys to attend college, it will keep up with their father’s legacy of academics and work ethic…both boys want to become state troopers, just like Aaron.”
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