Longtime Tennessee sports reporter Wes Rucker died Thursday, Feb. 19, the only fatality of a multi-vehicle crash on I-40 West in Knoxville, Tennessee.
He was 43 years old.
Rucker’s death was confirmed by his father-in-law, David Goldberg, in a Facebook post published late Feb. 19. According to a Feb. 20 news release by the Knoxville Police Department, police officers responded to a five-vehicle crash on I-40 West at 4:50 p.m. ET on Feb. 19, where Rucker — who was not named in the release — was pronounced dead at the scene…