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The Caddo coroner’s office has identified a Shreveport resident as the man who died after his vehicle ran over him.
He is 77-year-old John E. Pettaway.
The accident occurred just minutes after midnight Saturday in the 8100 block of the Keatchie-Marshall Road in Keatchie, the coroner’s office reports.
It has been reported that Pettaway got out of his truck to close a gate but the vehicle was not in park. He was found pinned under the tires.
Pettaway was taken to Ochsner LSU Health, the Shreveport hospital where he died at 1:18 a.m. Sunday.
An autopsy has been scheduled there.
https://www.ksla.com/2019/06/16/coroner-identifies-man-fatally-crushed-by-truck/