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An Arnprior native killed in Guelph on the weekend was remembered Monday as a tireless, loving friend who always placed others first.
Grace Glofcheskie, 24, died when she was struck by a stolen Ford Escape at about 2:30 a.m. Sunday after walking a friend home, Guelph police said Monday.
The driver had just fled from a Wellington County OPP RIDE checkpoint a little over a kilometre away in downtown Guelph. The vehicle sheared off a utility pole and came to rest upside down in the middle of the street. When police arrived a few moment later they found Glofcheskie gravely injured and the driver of the SUV gone.
Glofcheskie later died in hospital.
“Grace was the kind of individual that just brightened up a room as soon as she walked in,” her friend, Meghan Wing, wrote in an email to the Citizen from Guelph. “She worked tirelessly to get things done and always put others before herself.”
Wing, president of the Guelph College of Biological Sciences Students Council, published an emotional tribute on the student council’s Facebook page. Glofcheskie had served as vice-president academic and alumni affairs in 2012-13.
“The world has lost one of its brightest stars,” Wing said in her Facebook post. Glofcheskie was “an amazingly bright student, beautiful individual, but also, an incredible student leader … and damn, was she great at everything.”
Glofcheskie was the driving force behind a number of fundraisers, most notably a “butler” auction that raised more than $2,000 for breast cancer research. An accomplished golfer, she has also served as captain of the Guelph Gryphons women’s golf team.
Other tributes were posted on the “In Loving Memory of Grace Glofcheskie” Facebook page.
An uncle of Glofcheskie’s reached by the Citizen on Monday said the family didn’t want to speak to the media.
Meanwhile, the province’s Special Investigations Unit is probing the circumstances of the crash. The SIU has designated one subject officer and two witness officers in its investigation, said SIU spokesman Jason Gennaro. The SIU investigates incidents involving police in which civilians are seriously injured or killed.
He would not say if police were chasing or following the SUV before the crash.
“We’re still trying to determine exactly what happened from the first interaction right up to the collision,” Gennaro said.
At a press conference on Monday, Guelph police appealed for the driver of the SUV to surrender and asked for the public’s help for information about the crash. The Ford Escape had been reported stolen a few hours before the accident on Saturday night in the eastern part of the town. Given the damage to the vehicle, it’s very likely that the driver was injured in the crash, said Const. Michael Gatto.
“This one bothers us. It bothers us a lot,” Gatto said. “Obviously, this is a young girl with a huge, bright future ahead of her. She was a recent university graduate. She was someone who was going to be a value to society. It hurts.”
Guelph police were asking anyone with information to contact Sgt. Tina Ryan at 519-824-1212 ext. 7329, or anonymously at Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
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Grace Glofcheskie, 24, died when she was struck by a stolen Ford Escape at about 2:30 a.m. Sunday after walking a friend home, Guelph police said Monday.
The driver had just fled from a Wellington County OPP RIDE checkpoint a little over a kilometre away in downtown Guelph. The vehicle sheared off a utility pole and came to rest upside down in the middle of the street. When police arrived a few moment later they found Glofcheskie gravely injured and the driver of the SUV gone.
Glofcheskie later died in hospital.
“Grace was the kind of individual that just brightened up a room as soon as she walked in,” her friend, Meghan Wing, wrote in an email to the Citizen from Guelph. “She worked tirelessly to get things done and always put others before herself.”
Wing, president of the Guelph College of Biological Sciences Students Council, published an emotional tribute on the student council’s Facebook page. Glofcheskie had served as vice-president academic and alumni affairs in 2012-13.
“The world has lost one of its brightest stars,” Wing said in her Facebook post. Glofcheskie was “an amazingly bright student, beautiful individual, but also, an incredible student leader … and damn, was she great at everything.”
Glofcheskie was the driving force behind a number of fundraisers, most notably a “butler” auction that raised more than $2,000 for breast cancer research. An accomplished golfer, she has also served as captain of the Guelph Gryphons women’s golf team.
Other tributes were posted on the “In Loving Memory of Grace Glofcheskie” Facebook page.
An uncle of Glofcheskie’s reached by the Citizen on Monday said the family didn’t want to speak to the media.
Meanwhile, the province’s Special Investigations Unit is probing the circumstances of the crash. The SIU has designated one subject officer and two witness officers in its investigation, said SIU spokesman Jason Gennaro. The SIU investigates incidents involving police in which civilians are seriously injured or killed.
He would not say if police were chasing or following the SUV before the crash.
“We’re still trying to determine exactly what happened from the first interaction right up to the collision,” Gennaro said.
At a press conference on Monday, Guelph police appealed for the driver of the SUV to surrender and asked for the public’s help for information about the crash. The Ford Escape had been reported stolen a few hours before the accident on Saturday night in the eastern part of the town. Given the damage to the vehicle, it’s very likely that the driver was injured in the crash, said Const. Michael Gatto.
“This one bothers us. It bothers us a lot,” Gatto said. “Obviously, this is a young girl with a huge, bright future ahead of her. She was a recent university graduate. She was someone who was going to be a value to society. It hurts.”
Guelph police were asking anyone with information to contact Sgt. Tina Ryan at 519-824-1212 ext. 7329, or anonymously at Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
bcrawford@ottawacitizen.com
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