Around 1 a.m. on Tuesday, April 27, NYPD Highway Patrol 3 Officer Anastasios Tsakos, 43, was killed when he was violently struck and thrown over 100 feet by a passing vehicle as he was diverting traffic from a previous fatal collision on the Long Island Expressway in Fresh Meadows, in a portion of the 107th police precinct. Tsakos’ death marks the first line-of-duty death for the NYPD this year. He was a 14-year veteran of the NYPD and leaves behind his wife Irene, a six-year-old daughter, and a three-year-old son. “They will never see their father again because somebody did the wrong thing, and we have to understand, every day our officers go out looking to do the right thing. But here’s a good man who won’t be home. Just so much pain,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio.