KJAS News has confirmed that a Sabine County man, who was a former Jasper police officer, died in a Beaumont hospital following a Wednesday morning crash in Tyler County.
Forty-two-year-old Samuel Brister, of Pineland, was pronounced dead at St Elizabeth Hospital by Jefferson County Precinct 8 Justice of the Peace Tom Gillam, III..
According to DPS Sergeant Stephanie Davis, it happened at about 8:00 on U.S. Highway 287 just northwest of Woodville. Davis said Brister was driving northbound in a 2016 Dodge pickup truck when, for an unknown reason, the vehicle went off the highway and struck a tree.
The Woodville Fire Department was called to the scene with Jaws-of-Life when it was reported that the man was trapped in the vehicle.
Brister became a Jasper police officer in the early 2000’s and he was promoted to sergeant in 2006. Brister left the Jasper Police Department in 2009.
He was also the son of Kirbyville Police Chief Paul Brister.