His name is Arturo Frias Moreno. I didn’t know that — I learned it from the news Thursday. I and many others call him Sunset Tury. People who know him better knew him as T-Bone.
If you didn’t know him, you might have been a little wary of him, because he was rough around the edges. If you knew him, you knew he had a big heart, and loved his neighborhood down to the bone.
According to the news, he’s 57. He’ll always be 57, because he has no more years left. Tury, who grew up in Sunset Heights, was struck and killed by a car while walking Sunset Heights Wednesday.
According to news reports, six people have been killed in traffic collisions this year. The reports don’t break it down by type, but at least one other pedestrian has been killed in traffic this year – a child killed when he was struck by an ATV Tuesday…