Gov Paterson Dedicates Stretch of Highway to Slain Trooper

A five-mile stretch of highway in the Hudson Valley is now named after a state trooper killed during a stand-off with a fugitive in 2007.

Trooper David Brinkerhoff died April 25, 2007 while trying to capture 23-year-old Travis Trim at a farmhouse near the Catskills.

Trim led police on a manhunt after he shot another trooper and stole a minivan. Trim died in the stand-off, which also injured Trooper Richard Mattson.

On Friday, Governor David Paterson announced that a stretch of Route 30 in the town of Middletown in Delaware County will now be referred to as the Trooper David C. Brinkerhoff Memorial Highway.

Brinkherhoff was an eight-and-a-half year veteran of the state police who lived in Coxsackie with his wife and daughter.