TEEN KILLED BY FIRE ENGINE IDENTIFIED

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June 23, 2013 (Poway) – Evelyn Jean Courtney, 19, a has been identified by the County Medical Examiner as the victim killed when the vehicle in which she was a passenger was struck by a fire engine en route to an emergency medical call.

Courtney, an aspiring model, was wearing her seatbelt when the fire engine broadsided the vehicle in which she was riding on June 20, 2013 at 4 a.m. in the intersection of Poway Road and Midland Road in Poway.   She had attended Poway High School and Mt. Carmel High School, according to 10 News. She was single and lived with her parents.

She was pronounced dead at the scene without medical intervention.

The Medical Examiner has not yet determined whether there may have been any contributing factors, pending an investigation. 

The driver of the vehicle, 44-year-old  Robbie Dean Gillespie, was injured and taken to a hospital.

Courtney’s father wrote the following tribute on his Facebook page: “ We may have lost a member of the family but heaven has gained a beautiful angel. Her beautiful spirit will always live in our hearts…May you rest in paradise and walk an endless runway where the angels are admiring your beauty.”


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