VIDEO: Officer Clayton Townsend left behind a wife and 10-month-old son, and dozens of friends who say he was full of energy, loyal and humble. "It was just always good to see him every time we'd run calls together and he just always had a good attitude towards everything," said Dylan Bryan, a firefighter with the Salt River Fire Department. Townsend served in the Salt River Police Department for five years. On Tuesday, Townsend was conducting a traffic stop on northbound Loop 101 near McDowell Road when another car hit him. According to DPS, the driver of that car, Jerry Sanstead, admitted to investigators that he was texting at the time of the crash.