MPD officer dies after crash

A Metropolitan Police Department officer died Wednesday after suffering critical injuries in a fluke traffic collision in Northwest Washington five days earlier.

Doctors removed officer Wayne Pitt, 57, a four-year MPD veteran and a 20-year veteran of the Raleigh-Durham, N.C., police department, from life support at Washington Hospital Center on Wednesday morning, a police spokesman said. He had undergone multiple surgeries there over the weekend for internal injuries, following the crash that occurred at 9:15 p.m. Friday.