Colleagues Adrian Oliver have donned black and blue ribbons in memory of the of RCMP Constable, 28, killed in a crash early Tuesday morning.      

Adrian was just finishing up a shift when his cruiser collided with a truck in Surrey B.C. He had been with the Surrey detachment for his whole three and a half year career, but he went to high school in Ottawa.     

Adrian’s ties to the nation’s capital were still strong, as his father works as an RCMP chief superintendant at headquarters in Ottawa.

Back in Ottawa’s east end, Adrian is being remembered by the teachers and staff at St.Peter’s High School in Orleans, where he attended as a teenager.

“Adrian and his younger, twin brother were well liked and mischievous,” teacher Kim Schreider told 1310News. “We all knew in the backs of our heads that they wanted to enter the family business and they wanted to go into the R.C.M.P like their father.”   

Adrian’s brother Ben is also an R.C.M.P officer on B.C’s lower mainland.   

Schreider had both Adrian and his brother Ben in her class.

“They were inseparable,” she told 1310News. “They were close. We never speak about Adrian alone. It was always Ben and Adrian or the twins.”

Schreider says Adrian’s death has hit them all hard and that he was a great example of aiming for your goals. “He has lived a short life, but it’s been a full life and he’s realized a dream he had.”