Driver kills

The crash happened around 9 p. Trooper James Horton was responding to help his brother, Trooper John Horton, with a traffic stop when he lost control and hit the stopped patrol vehicle, which in turn struck Trooper John Horton and the detained driver on the roadside, officials said. Trooper John Horton, a year veteran, was taken to a hospital, where he died, officials said. The detained driver, identified as Dusty Luke Beck, 26, of South Carolina, was pronounced dead at the scene.

The car's driver, Adrian Major, 36, of Terrytown, suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene. Police booked him at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center in Gretna with vehicular homicide, which incorporates the impairment aspect of driving, as well as careless driving and driving on a suspended license.

Edit Close. Toggle navigation. Purchases made via links on our site may earn us an affiliate commission. Get Cyber Monday savings on this 4-star-reviewed data back up system. Aguilera Mederos testified that the brakes on his semitrailer failed before he plowed into vehicles that had slowed because of another wreck in the Denver suburb of Lakewood.

Prosecutors argued he could have used one of several runaway ramps as his truck barreled down from the mountains. The chain-reaction wreck ruptured gas tanks, causing flames that consumed several vehicles and melted parts of the highway just after it descends from the mountains west of Denver.

Aguilera Mederos was found guilty of six counts of vehicular homicide, six counts of first-degree assault, 10 counts of attempted first-degree assault, six counts of careless driving and one count of reckless driving. Jurors acquitted him of 15 additional counts of attempted first-degree assault.