The Boone County State's Attorney's Office says that a former Rockford police officer in jail for a DUI crash in 2012 in Boone County has filed a petition for executive clemency. The office says that on May 21, 2012, at about 9 p.m., Daniel Cruz was passing a SUV in a no-passing zone southbound on Beloit Road when he hit a pickup truck which caused him to hit the SUV. One of the passengers of the SUV, Mary Danielson, was paralyzed from the neck down. Danielson died almost one year later, and after a review by the Winnebago County Coroner's Office, her death was determined to be unrelated to the crash. According to the State's Attorney's Office, Cruz attempted to walk away from the scene, but was stopped by a firefighter nearly a mile away from the crash. Cruz refused to be tested for drugs and alcohol, so a search warrant was obtained to begin blood testing.