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U.S. NEWS Tuesday 23 OcTOber 2018

5 of the 6 killed in Utah highway

crash were from Honduras

By BRADY McCOMBS trol Sgt. Nick Street. a work site, authorities said.
Associated Press They were killed Friday Maria Matamoros Castillo,
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Five when a dump truck driven the Honduran minister of
of the six men killed last by 41-year-old Jamie Don communications, said four
week when a dump truck McKenzie crossed a me- of the men were from one
collided with a pickup truck dian and hit the oncoming family, according to a re-
on a Utah highway were pickup south of Park City. cording provided by the
from Honduras, authorities The Hondurans were pas- Honduran government. This Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 photo provided by the Utah Highway
said Monday. sengers in the pickup driv- Matamoros said one of the Patrol shows the scene of a head-on collision of a dump truck
Utah authorities are coor- en by Efrain O. Cardenas, men has a disabled child. and a pickup on a state highway near Heber, Utah.
dinating with Honduran 62, of Salt Lake City, who She said the Honduran Associated Press
consular officials to inform also died. Three of the men government is helping the
the victim's families before were ejected and all six families of the victims to get Matamoros did not provide McKenzie has a history
making their identities pub- died at the scene. the bodies returned to the the victim's full names, ages of alcohol, domestic vio-
lic, said Utah Highway Pa- The men were traveling to Central American country. or home cities. lence and driving-related
"It's so sad for our country," offenses, online Utah court
NYPD suspends use of body Matamoros said in Spanish. records show.
McKenzie was charged Four days before the fatal
Monday with six counts of crash, McKenzie was cited
camera model after 1 explodes vehicular homicide and with following too close in a
two counts of driving under vehicle.
the influence causing seri- In August, McKenzie was
NEW YORK (AP) — The New in August and was planning mixing in a version made ous injury as well as allega- charged with assault and
York City Police Depart- to finish rolling them out to by Axon, which acquired tions involving open con- intoxication in a domes-
ment scrambled Monday officers, sergeants and lieu- Vievu in May. tainers, reckless driving and tic violence incident. He
to find ways to quickly re- tenants in all patrol, transit Both options have draw- speeding, authorities said. pleaded guilty to the
place thousands of body and housing units in the backs, Tisch said. It's unknown if McKenzie charges, and took a plea
camera devices it sudden- coming months. The LE-4 is in short supply has an attorney. He is set in abeyance in which he
ly stopped using after an All of that is on hold while and the Axon model uses to make his initial court ap- agreed to complete alco-
officer said one caught fire Saturday night's alleged different software to man- pearance Tuesday after- hol abuse evaluation and
and exploded as he head- explosion is being investiga- age video recordings, she noon in the city of Heber, take an anger manage-
ed out on patrol over the tion. Commissioner James said. Axon said in a state- Utah. ment class.q
weekend.The department O'Neill said the department ment it will do whatever is
shelved about 3,000 of its has hired an independent necessary to quickly and
newest model Vievu LE-5 forensic investigator to safely resolve the situation.
units, about one-fifth of its conduct a probe. Police said an officer in
body camera inventory. "We understand that roll- Staten Island noticed
Officers using other models ing out the body cameras smoke coming from the
will continue to wear them, is a big part of the agency's USB charging port on his
the department said. commitment to building LE-5 camera after pulling it
Deputy Commissioner Jes- trust with the community," off of a charger.
sica Tisch said pulling the said Tisch, who is in charge The officer removed it and
LE-5 cameras from use of information technology. the device exploded, po-
made it unlikely the depart- "Right now, sorting through lice said.
ment would meet its goal all of this and developing a No one was injured.
of equipping the vast ma- go-forward strategy is our The NYPD said the explo-
jority of officers with body top priority," she added. sion revealed a potential
cameras by the end of the The department has settled for the battery to ignite,
year. on two possible solutions: and the cameras are be-
The department started adding more of the older ing removed out of an
handing out LE-5 cameras LE-4 model cameras or abundance of caution.q