Pennsylvania state trooper Michael Pahira killed by Haitian illegal immigrant truck driver in crash: report

Key Points:

• Pennsylvania State Trooper Michael E. Pahira, Jr., 44, was killed in a chain-reaction crash on Interstate 81 when an illegal immigrant trucker, Michael Bon, veered off the road and struck Pahira’s patrol car during an inspection.
• Michael Bon, a Haitian national who entered the US under the Biden administration as a Customs and Border Protection parolee, had his Temporary Protected Status denied and was ordered to leave the country but remained in the US and obtained a commercial driver’s license from Massachusetts.
• Bon was charged with homicide by vehicle, recklessly endangering another person, involuntary manslaughter, and reckless driving, and was arraigned on $700,000 bail with an immigration detainer lodged against him.
• Trooper Pahira, a 2007 Pennsylvania State Police enlistee, was remembered by Gov. Josh Shapiro and others as a dedicated officer and caring family man who had recently moved back home to support his mother during her cancer treatment.
• The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles noted that Bon’s commercial driver’s license was issued and renewed under federal policies in place before the Trump administration directed states to stop issuing such licenses to non-domiciled individuals.