Duty Death: Travis Russell - [Trinidad]
End of Service: 01/03/2016
By Anthony A. Mestas
The Pueblo Chieftain
TRINIDAD, Colo. — A Las Animas County sheriff’s deputy was killed Tuesday in a rollover crash in town.
Deputy Travis Russell, 44, of Trinidad, was transported to the Mount San Rafael Hospital where he died.
According to the Colorado State Patrol, Russell was on duty and not responding to a call for service at the time of the crash.
The patrol said Russell was wearing his seat belt at the time of the crash.
A call reporting the accident came in at 11:27 a.m.
Colorado State Patrol troopers responded to a two-vehicle crash involving a sheriff’s deputy on Stonewall Avenue near Prospect Street in Trinidad.
Russell was driving a 2009 Ford Expedition Las Animas County sheriff’s deputy vehicle.
His vehicle was traveling east on Stonewall Avenue just west of Prospect Street when the deputy vehicle veered across the west lanes of Stonewall Avenue striking the front of an unoccupied 1990 Toyota 4Runner.
The patrol reported that following the collision, the deputy’s vehicle continued east where it rolled onto its passenger side.
The crash remains under investigation by the state patrol.
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