CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A Cambridge officer has been cited with leaving the scene of a personal injury and operating to endanger, following an investigation into a hit-and-run with a bicyclist, said police.
Ryan Callinan, 28 from Wilmington, allegedly hit a bicyclist Sunday in Cambridge around 7:50 p.m., at the intersection of Broadway and Portland Street. He was off duty at the time.
A witness of the crash called 911 and gave police the license plate number for a vehicle involved.
Deputy Cambridge Police Superintendent Jack Albert said Callinan was well respected within the department.
“He has been an exemplary police officer. He's been highly decorated in any accommodations in his file. He has been one of our strong officers,” Albert said.
Callanan is a military veteran who was following in the footsteps of his father, who is an officer in the Cambridge Police Department.
“It’s tragic, it really is. You could talk about him all day long and it breaks your heart when something like this happens,” The Cambridge Deputy Police Superintendent Jack Albert said. “It pulls us together when we are involved in something like this, thankfully it’s a very rare occasion where we have even something remotely like this.”
Callinan is on administrative leave from Cambridge Police, where he has served since 2011. Police tell FOX25 the investigation is still in the very early stages.