(EL PASO COUNTY, Colo.) — The victim who was found to have been shot and killed inside a truck following a three-car crash on Highway 24 on Tuesday, Aug. 26, has been identified.
According to the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office (EPSO), 29-year-old Noel Gutierrez-Cano died of at least one gunshot wound. The official cause and manner of death will be determined by the El Paso County Coroner’s Office, though Gutierrez-Cano’s death is being investigated as a homicide.
Deputies with EPSO and troopers with the Colorado State Patrol (CSP) originally responded just before 8:15 a.m. on Tuesday to a report of a three-car crash near the intersection of Highway 24 and Blue Gill Drive, just south of Judge Orr Road.
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The 911 caller indicated that a passenger in one of the vehicles–a white pickup truck towing a black trailer–appeared to have been seriously injured or killed. Life-saving efforts were attempted, but the passenger, now identified as Gutierrez-Cano, died of his injuries.
Law enforcement immediately began investigating to determine the identity and location of the driver of the truck, who ran from the scene after the crash…