Man arrested in connection with 2019 Kansas crash that killed father, son
A man involved in a 2019 fatal crash that killed an Oklahoma father and son in western Kansas has been arrested nearly four years later.
on Friday, the U.S. Marshals Service arrested 26-year-old Paulo Ivan Garcia in Douglas County, Georgia, after he was accused of leaving the scene of a deadly accident and felony theft in Grant County, Kansas, the agency said in a news release.
The crash happened on Oct. 26, 2019. At around 12:21 p.m., emergency crews were called to an injury accident at the intersection of Grant County Road X and Road 10, about 15 miles northeast of Ulysses, highway patrol crash logs said.
Investigators determined a 2007 Kenworth semi was westbound on Road 10 as a 2012 Chevrolet Silverado was southbound on Road X. The semi truck driver “failed to yield the right of way to (the pickup) at the uncontrolled intersection and entered the intersection directly in the path of (the pickup),” troopers wrote in the report. The pickup hit the passenger side of the semi,” the Eagle previously reported.
The driver and passenger of the Silverado, respectively, 57-year-old Kevin Coyle and 81-year-old Gerald Coyle, both of Turpin, Oklahoma, died at the scene of the crash, the Kansas Highway Patrol said.
Authorities said Garcia stole a pickup truck from a bystander who was trying to help the victims after the accident.
The truck was found abandoned in a field in Haskell County, directly west of neighboring Grant County, the Eagle previously reported.
Garcia was booked into the Douglas County Jail in Georgia, where he will make his first appearance. He will then be extradited to Kansas, supervisory deputy U.S. Marshal Jerry Viera said.
