Edison Cop Run Over By J.P.S. Student Recovering At Home

EDISON, NJ — Edison police officer Andrew Roy is continuing his recovery at home, after a distraught J.P. Stevens student hit him with her car at the end of May, officials said.

Roy has been discharged from Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, and is now home, Lt. Robert Dudash said. After first being in serious condition with leg and hip injuries, Roy is now doing well.

Other police officers have been handling Roy's duties as the Student Resource Officer as he recovers. Roy has been with the police department for 16 years.

Roy, 42, was struck on May 30, when Claudia Morgan, an 18-year-old senior at J.P. Stevens High School, reversed into him and pinned him between two cars, Edison Police Chief Thomas Bryan said. Morgan was attempting to flee the school by car after getting into a fight with an ex-boyfriend in homeroom, an eyewitness told Patch. Roy was attempting to stop Morgan from leaving school grounds when he was struck.

Morgan was arrested in the Stop & Shop parking lot on Inman Ave shortly after fleeing, and charged with aggravated assault, obstruction, and eluding arrest, police said. She was then taken to Rutgers University's Behavioral Health Care facility in Piscataway for an evaluation.