Posted on 12/20/2022 10:53:07 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s
OUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Police charged a 26-year-old man with murder after a former Eastern High School student was killed in a wrong way crash on Hurstbourne Parkway over the weekend.
According to Alicia Smiley, a spokeswoman for the Louisville Metro Police Department, Porfirio Cruz Hernandez is charged with murder, wanton endangerment, driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and operating a motor vehicle without a valid operator's license.
As of Monday afternoon, Hernandez remained hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.
The crash took place around 4 a.m. Sunday at the intersection of South Hurstbourne Parkway and Fegenbush Lane. Police said a pickup truck was going north on Hurstbourne Parkway in the southbound lanes when it crashed into two oncoming cars.
One of those cars caught on fire, and its driver died at the scene. The driver in the other car was not injured. The driver of the pickup truck was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Family confirmed to WDRB News on Monday afternoon that Landon Nokes, 19, was killed in the crash while on his way home Sunday morning after working a night shift at UPS. Nokes' family said he graduated from Eastern High School in May, where he played lacrosse and football. With 13 offers to play football in college, he was in the process of getting a scholarship from Union College to play there.
Visitation will be held Thursday at Ratterman and Sons, with a memorial service to follow.
LMPD is investigating the crash.
At the time of this writing, no mugshot for Hernandez was available, as police said he remains in the hospital.
This story may be updated.
Two things to bet on based on this. The man is illegal and he has a long sheet which includes previous DUIs, at a minimum.
It's gotten to where we learn more from what is left out than from what we are told.
I will post a follow up if anything more is revealed. Don't hold your breath.
I’m betting Illegal Alien.
When will we be able to just take these scum out the back door of the police station and put a bullet in them?
Former High School Student? That’s 90% of the population.
Murdered by Rats and openborders RINOs.
Porfirio Cruz Hernandez
No border, No country
-fJRoberts-
It would be easier and cheaper to just BUILD THE DAMN WALL and keep the turds in whatever third-world cesspool they floated out of.
It’s hard to keep your attention up all the time and to watch for vehicles coming straight at you.
A colleague’s son was killed in a head-on 20 years ago. His son was driving home for Christmas when a guy on the other side of the freeway crossed over the median and hit him, killing him. Another family lost a son in Iraq and that was a tough funeral. A fraternity brother was vacationing in Hawaii with his new bride, dove into a pool, and broke his neck, killing him. An ex girlfriend hit black ice on a bridge on Christmas Eve, her car went into the freezing river and she drowned. All around ages 18 to 20.
There’s nothing worse than funerals of young people in their teens and 20s, no matter how old you are.
In better days the town folk shows up and dragged them out and did it themselves.
Yes, as reported--and a "Wrong-Way" driver. Exactly what I warned of--here--a few days ago.
Drunk driving is the national pastime of Mexico, more popular than even soccer.
Most everyone in D.C. is directly responsible for this killing, along with tens of thousands of other murders, DWI’s, robberies, burglaries, rapes, assaults, etc., which has occurred in the past several decades, all at the hands of illegals..
They’re truly the enemy of Americans.
Drunken driving is a sport for many Hispanic men...that’s why so many repeat offenders and dead Americans.
Freedom of vending machine narcotics. Freedom of sexual activity, regardless. Freedom of abortion. Etc. Loathsome mongrels, just like RATs and RINOs.
The worst wrong-way crash in Kentucky history, in the 1980s, involved a native-born non-Hispanic white man (who survived and served a long prison sentence).
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