<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A friend of a Cairns mother who was </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/cairns-woman-fighting-for-life-hit-by-police-car/784d4850-12e9-48c4-9209-539fc88625f5" rel="" target="" title="hit and killed by a police vehicle"><span>hit and killed by a police vehicle</span></a><span> has shared their heartbreak.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Boksoon Kwon, who was living with her son and learning new skills at TAFE, is being remembered as warm and wise.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She attended English and arts classes at Cairns TAFE and made a friend in Jiraporn Janluang.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/australian-man-dies-machu-picchu-peru/7df3f26c-9b02-4ddc-a416-c305e288d15b"><strong><span>Australian police officer, 53, dies while hiking Inca Trail in Peru</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"She was a very wise woman, she's clever," Janluang said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"She never say about anybody bad, never ever see her face grumpy, she always very warm. That's what I can tell, she's a loveable person."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The 71-year-old was hit and killed by a police Landcruiser in Cairns North yesterday morning.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/cairns-woman-hit-and-killed-by-police-vehicle-friend-pays-tribute/fc632105-bad4-4b3c-b737-821adc51cf46" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She was crossing the road on a green signal. At the same time officers drove through an intersection to arrest a wanted person.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I text her phone number and said I heard some news and an accident and someone named Boksoon, then her son replied and said it was her," Janluang said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/sydney-news-trio-charged-with-murder-over-mans-castle-hill-balcony-fall-death/6ff9aa0d-3f27-4ef6-bb1d-1ebfe9d129a0"><strong><span>Trio charged with murder over man's Sydney balcony fall death</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"And I felt like, 'oh God, this, this … it can't be'.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"She shouldn't end up like this."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Kwon's son was too distressed to speak on camera today as the police investigation into the officers' actions continues.</span></div></div>