Louisiana State Police have identified the victims in Thursday’s fatal crash.

Chanell Stephens-Andrews, 48 and six-year-old Ayden Ware, both of Loganville, Georgia, were ejected from a tractor-trailer and were pronounced dead at the scene by the DeSoto Parish Coroner’s office.

According to LSP’s initial investigation, a 2015 Freightliner tractor-trailer driven by Patrick Burns of Denton, Texas was traveling north on Interstate 49.

For reasons unknown to crash scene investigators, the tractor-trailer left the roadway and went down a ditch embankment and began to overturn.

The crash remains under investigation. This year so far, LSP Troop G has investigated 14 fatal crashes resulting in 15 deaths.

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