By Jenna Johnson, Aaron C. Davis and Hamil R. Harris
Washington Post
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Md. — A retired state police corporal who went to work as a civilian medical evacuation pilot. A police paramedic who was a new father. A mother who had volunteered as an emergency medical technician for four years. A teenager who had graduated from high school this year.
They died together early yesterday morning when a Maryland State Police medevac helicopter crashed in Walker Mill Regional Park in Prince George’s County as it flew two injured teens from a car accident in Charles County.
Authorities identified those killed as pilot Stephen J. Bunker, 59; Maryland State Trooper 1st Class Mickey C. Lippy, 34; Tonya Mallard, 39, a volunteer emergency medical technician; and Ashley J. Younger, 17, one of the victims in the vehicle crash. Jordan Wells, 18, another of the vehicle accident victims, survived and was in critical condition.
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