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Practically a yr after the physique of Oklahoma teen navy hopeful Noah Presgrove was discovered on the aspect of a freeway, 911 calls reveal the disturbing scene two witnesses encountered the following morning.
Noah Presgrove, 19, was discovered useless alongside a rural stretch of US-81 in Jefferson County, Oklahoma, on Labor Day in 2023. He was final seen alive at a celebration that he attended with a bunch of pals that evening.
A health worker’s report decided that Presgrove died of “a number of blunt power accidents.”
Fox Information Digital obtained two 911 calls from motorists reporting what they first believed to be a deer mendacity on the aspect of the street, which was later decided to be human stays.
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“It seems like somebody acquired hit, like somebody strolling down the freeway, they’re mendacity on the shoulder within the street,” a caller tells the police dispatcher in one of many recordings. “Yeah, like on the shoulder, like possibly they had been strolling and anyone hit them. I assumed it was a deer, however it seems like a physique.”
The caller then tells dispatch that the scene seemed “terrible odd.”
Minutes later, one other witness known as 911 to report seeing a physique on the aspect of the identical freeway in the identical location as the primary caller.
“I used to be driving to work south of Terral, and I’m fairly certain somebody is mendacity useless on the aspect of the street. They appear bare,” the caller tells the dispatcher.
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“I’m sitting right here blocking the street. The physique is mendacity proper on the white line,” the caller says, confirming to dispatch that it was a useless bare physique. “I rotated as a result of I nearly hit it. At first, I assumed it was a deer, and I used to be speaking to a man I work with and mentioned, ‘I do not suppose that may be a deer,'” the caller says.
The second caller mentioned there appeared to even be a chunk of clothes in the midst of the street close to the physique.
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation initially described Presgrove’s dying as “suspicious,” although Presgrove’s official method of dying is “undetermined.”
What callers described to 911 dispatchers aligns with particulars from the health worker’s report.
“The decedent was discovered bare sporting solely a pair of sneakers on the aspect of a freeway on the morning of September 4, 2023. There have been no car components or particles noticed on the scene. At the moment, what transpired on how the physique was discovered on the street having a number of blunt power accidents is unknown. Subsequently, the way of dying is deemed undetermined,” the report reads.
The identical report famous Presgrove’s reason behind dying was “a number of blunt power accidents” after an ATV accident earlier that evening.
“Additional investigation revealed that the decedent was at a home celebration and ingesting on September 3, 2023. Then he rode an ATV ranger car with a number of males that had a roll-over incident. The decedent was alive following the incident and returned to the celebration the place he acquired into an argument along with his girlfriend. The decedent left the home celebration and was not discovered till the morning of September 4, 2023, on the aspect of the freeway,” the report continues.
Presgrove was 19 years previous when he died. He graduated from Comanche Excessive Faculty and deliberate to be part of the navy.
Presgrove’s household created a Fb web page, “Justice for Noah Presgrove,” nonetheless searching for solutions practically a yr later. Rawlings mentioned her household has no ailing will towards anybody who is aware of what occurred to Presgrove. They simply need closure.
“I consider that one thing occurred, like there was an accident and the youngsters acquired scared. Whether or not it was after they had been doing combat membership, whether or not it was after they had been on ATVs, whether or not it was, I do not know, somebody acquired mad. I don’t – I simply can’t think about somebody deliberately hurting Noah,” Noah’s sister, Madison Rawlings, beforehand informed Fox Information Digital. “He wasn’t into hassle like that, and he wasn’t ever into drama like that. He was similar to, no matter, ? So, I simply can’t think about that occuring.”
A spokesperson for the Oklahoma Freeway Patrol, which has taken over the investigation, informed Fox Information Digital the investigation is ongoing and wouldn’t remark additional.
