Correction officer killed in Bx. crash

A Bronx family is grieving the loss of a Correction Department officer killed Friday after he was thrown from his car when he crashed on the Bronx River Parkway.

Kaliph Manns, 28, was driving home from his shift on Rikers Island at about 1 a.m. when he lost control of his 2016 black Nissan Maxima on the northbound Bronx River Parkway near the E. 233rd St. exit.

When his car flipped over, Manns flew through his windshield and landed on an embankment. Medics rushed him to nearby Montefiore Medical Center with serious trauma to his body, officials said. He died at the hospital.

Manns (photo), who was assigned to the Rikers North Infirmary Command, was dedicated to law enforcement and family, said relatives gathered at his mother’s home in the Bronx.

“I’m so honored to have had him as my son,” said his proud mom, Carol Dupé. “He really wanted to make a difference; he wanted to support his fellow colleagues, his family, his cousins.”

The veteran corrections officer had studied law at John Jay College before serving six years as a cop in Union Springs, Ala. He returned to New York in 2014 because he could make a bigger impact as an NYC Corrections officer, his family said. He joined the Department of Correction the next year.

“His [first] name means ‘king of rulers,’” said Dupé. “He always said, ‘I’m the heir. I’m the eldest son. I have to take care of the family.’ He made it his responsibility to take care of us..”

The fallen CO was looking for a condominium with his longtime girlfriend and wanted to buy his mother a home.

“We are profoundly saddened to learn that Officer Kaliph Manns passed away,” DOC Commissioner Cynthia Brann said in a statement Friday. “We mourn alongside his family and friends, and offer our deepest condolences to his loved ones.”