FILE - A photo of a vigil set up for Seattle graduate student Jaahnavi Kandula who was struck and killed by a police car in South Lake Union in Jan. 2023. The Seattle City Attorney's Office Criminal Division has filed a citation for the Seattle Police Department officer who struck and killed a 23-year-old woman in a South Lake Union crosswalk on Jan. 23, 2023.
Dave was responding to an overdose call while driving near the intersection of Dexter Avenue North and Thomas Street around 8 p.m. on a Monday when his cruiser hit Jaahnavi Kandula, a graduate student at Northeastern University's Seattle campus. Kandula came to the Pacific Northwest from Bengaluru, India, in 2021 and was set to graduate in December 2023.
A KCPAO report from the earlier investigation showed Dave was driving 74 mph on a 25 mph street with sirens activated, "chirped" the siren while going through the previous intersection, and applied brakes as he reacted to Kandula in the intersection, slowing to 63 mph.