RICHMOND, Calif. -- The last act of Richmond police officer Brad Moody’s life was to reach out and save others.

Moody, who was critically injured while responding to a call Saturday morning, was taken off life support shortly after midnight today, Richmond police Lt. Mark Gagan said.

Before he died, two of his organs were donated to a patient at the University of San Francisco Medical Center who had less than a day to live.

"Really, in essence, the last thing Brad did was save a life," Gagan said.

Moody, 29, is survived by his wife and two young daughters, Richmond police Chief Chris Magnus said. He had been with the Richmond Police Department for eight years and was a canine officer and a member of the department's SWAT team.

He had been responding to a report of an assault Saturday morning when his patrol car spun out and struck a utility pole on Marina Bay Parkway just north of Regatta Boulevard.

It had been raining shortly before the crash and the roads were slick, police said.

Richmond police officers, firefighters and several Pacific Gas and Electric Co. employees kept Moody alive until he could be transported to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek.

Doctors, however, pronounced him brain dead Sunday. Because he had chosen to be an organ donor, he was kept on life support until today.

His police dog "Rico" sustained minor injuries in the crash and is expected to recover.

A memorial Web site has been set up for Moody and police are asking people to write stories about him so that his children, ages 3 and 18 months, will be able to know their father, Gagan said. The Web site address is http://bradley-moody.last-memories.com.

A memorial fund has also been established for Moody's family at the Mechanics Bank. Donations can be made to "The Memorial Fund for Officer Brad Moody" and dropped off at any Mechanics Bank branch.

The flag at the Richmond Police Department has been lowered to half-staff and police are wearing black strips over their badges.

The Contra Costa County supervisors will adjourn their meeting today in Moody's honor.

The last Richmond police officers to die in the line of duty were Officer Leonard Garcia and Officer David Haynes, who were fatally shot while responding to a domestic disturbance on Dec. 28, 1992. The suspect then shot his wife and son before shooting himself.

More recently, the department lost Officer Kaliah Harper, who was off-duty when her ex-boyfriend fatally shot her outside a Fairfield memorial service on Nov. 24, 2006.

The shooter, Quartus Hinton, was convicted in July of voluntary manslaughter and use of a firearm. He faces 28 years in prison and is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 31.

Police expect to have more information about a memorial service for Moody later today.