The principal of the middle school where fallen Kansas City, Kansas, Police Ofc. Hunter Simoncic, 26, attended said the town of Galesburg, Kansas, has been hit hard by a season of loss.

Simoncic was killed early Tuesday morning after Dennis Mitchell III allegedly intentionally struck Simoncic during a vehicle pursuit.

Its one of those pieces of news that just kinda sends waves through the whole community because everybody knew him," Galesburg Middle School principal Jared Han said.

Simoncics death comes after a 12-year-old and a 16-year-old were struck and killed by a freight train near neighboring Erie, Kansas, in June.

As a school, were kind of still sorting through our feelings and working through the new normal of that tragedy, and to lose Hunter, its kinda driving it all home and

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