I see Tor last name spelled Taylor
and Sergeant with the Texas Department
Public Safety Media Communications
spokesperson for the Department
station here at the Texas State Path.
At approximately 340. This morning,
a DPS trooper was patrolling the
adjacent streets to the Texas
State Capitol when he was involved
in a auto pedestrian fatal crash.
Apparently. This is ongoing investigation.
We have very little information at this time.
Apparently the pedestrian was lying
on the street for unknown reason.
Maybe after the crash of Curd,
DPS troopers perform life threatening
lifesaving medical attention, however.
Gastrin was deceased Ms.
Contacted will slowly.
Yeah. Medical examiner's
office believe has arrived.
Will take over.
Transporting. Pedestrian
at this time we have our region,
Capital Region, state crash team along
with four DPS state crash team members
are involved several conductors.
Formal investigation of this
crash to determine exactly what.
The information we have on the
pedestrian was a 50 year old man.
Is there was there identification
found on the web into some popular
verification was found but I don't
have any further information name.
Other information.
Was the officer driving on Colorado
and made the turn off the Colorado?
Free.
13th St.
Just to clarify is he is the officer.
Is he a capital for Capital
Division as he Regents it's
just involved is assigned
to the capital D.
What is the next step for the
officer? Is there any routine administrative
leave or anything like that in this case?
Going. Consider critical
incident. Procedures.
Very early in the stages
of the investigation.
Statement.
Yeah. If you have any specific questions,
I'll give you my email address.
That is, Victor Victor Dot Taylor
Taylor at DPS initial DPS.
Got taxes spelled out.gov.
My email here will attempt
to answer your questions.
That information
at this time only blood vehicle
was involved with PTSD.
Available.
Alright, talk to you later, thank you.
Hi good morning everybody.
So we just finished up a press
conference and I want to recap
for anyone who's joining in or may
I don't know how the sound was.
So in case you missed
something, he's a little noisy because
we are right next to the street.
I want to let you know what happened
so we are here on 13th St in Colorado.
So for reference that is quite literally
next to the West side of the State Capitol
where earlier this morning around 3:45.
I am a DPS trooper hit ran over an
individual who we've now learned
was lying in the middle of the road.
The CPS trooper was on his duties
making his and he made a turn going so
he was going northbound on Colorado,
made a turn a left turn and that's
when he ran over that pedestrian.
PR was performed here on the scene,
but unfortunately that person
did pass away here again at
13th and Colorado.
The investigation is still ongoing.
DPS is bringing out there.
Traffic crime scene crews here
were also told the medical
examiner is now taking over 2.
Get the body off the scene and do
a little bit more investigating
as far as who this person was.
Were told that he was a man in his 50s.
That's all the information they had,
but they said they did find identification
on him to confirm that other than
that we are still in the process
of learning everything but the DPS
trooper is going through routine
protocol for this investigation.
We show you the scene really fast.
I'll walk over here.
So you're looking at the car
that's under investigation.
They've been checking it
out all this morning.
We have GPS on the scene right now.
Over this morning we had also awesome Police
Department is on the scene as well as EMS.
And like I told you,
the medical examiner is now also here.
And while you can't see it behind
these trees, is the state capital for
reference of state capitals right here?
That tree wasn't in the way, so that's
the vehicle that is under investigation.
It's been sitting there since this
morning since the incident happened.
Officers.
We're taking evidence from the front
and the back of it and talking to the
officer in the trooper that was in that car.
But other than that, safety wise,
just as this road gets busier here on lavaka,
especially today, just take it easy.
There is a lot of law enforcement
out here investigating the scene,
so we just want to make sure that
they stay safe while they do that.
If you have any questions,
we have the article linked
to this Facebook Live.
We're also on cave you right now.
Live cave you Daybreak,
so please tune in and I'm going to bring you.
The updates in showing you what the scene
looked like a little bit earlier as well.
For now, I'll turn off again.
We're live on cave.
You can watch on the K View app.
Just download it and you'll
see a little section.
The bottom says,
watch if you want to learn about
a little bit more and kind of
get an idea of what's going on.
Otherwise,
send me any messages if you have
questions and I'll try to answer them.
Have a good morning everyone and stay safe.