UPDATE: PEDESTRIAN FATAL LOOP 375 / VICTIM IDENTIFIED
3850 Justice El Paso, TX 79938
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Contact: Deputy Jesse Tovar / PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Direct: (915) 538-2119
Pager: (915) 533-0733 (#5370)
EMAIL: jtovar@epcounty.com
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Release Date / Time: Friday, October 30, 2009 10:40 AM
SECTION: El Paso County Sheriff's Office (LOWER VALLEY PATROL / STI’s)
EVENT: PEDESTRAIN FATAL LOOP 375 / VICTIM IDENTIFIED
LOCATION OF OCCURRENCE: Loop 375 (south) MP 33 El Paso County, TX
DATE / TIME: Thursday, October 29, 2009 5:15 PM
RESULT: Victim Identified
EL P ASO COUNTY, TX- Late Thursday afternoon 10-29-09 at 5:15 PM, Sheriff’s Deputies were dispatched to Loop 375 southbound (mile post 33) in reference to a traffic hazard/ subject standing in the roadway “challenging” vehicles. Deputies arrived within minutes to find a male subject unresponsive lying on the ground (median) with no signs of life. Special Traffic Investigators (STI) were summoned to the scene.
Preliminary investigation by STI's supported by several witnesses at the scene, revealed that a male subject was attempting to cross the south bound lanes of Loop 375 at reference point 33 when he was fatally struck by a gold in color 2006 Chevrolet Trailblazer. It appears that the male subject who died at the scene as a result of his injuries might have intentionally put himself on the road challenging traffic.
The deceased was identified as ZACKERY SOWELL (26) of Chaparral, New Mexico.
The 26 year-old driver of the Chevrolet Trailblazer will not be identified as he will not be facing charges.
TOXICOLOGY REPORTS ON THE DECEASED ARE PENDING.
SPEED IS NOT A FACTOR IN THIS ACCIDENT.
STI’s ARE CONTINUING WITH THE INVESTIGATION
NO OTHER INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME.
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The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office in March of 2001 was the first Sheriff’s Office in the State of Texas to be Internationally Accredited from CALEA and is now the recipient of the First CALEA Tri-Arc award in Texas (4th in the Nation) to have accreditations in: Law Enforcement, Communications, Training Academy.