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Pamela Cairos was pronounced dead at 3:45 p.m. on Friday. One minute later, at 3:46, Virginia Hight was pronounced dead too. The two women died after a crash involving a semi truck and a passenger vehicle in Peotone Township, Illinois.

Cairos was 66 and lived in Orland Hills. Hight was 87 and lived in Palos Heights. Both towns sit in Cook County, in the southwest suburbs of Chicago. On Friday afternoon, both women ended up on a road in Will County, and neither one went home.

The crash happened at the corner of Wilmington-Peotone Road and Center Road. It’s a rural crossing in Peotone Township, a good drive south of where either woman lived. A semi truck and a passenger vehicle were involved.

Deputies from the Will County Sheriff’s Office were sent to the scene that afternoon. They closed the roads around the intersection while they looked over the wreck and tried to piece together what happened.

The Will County Coroner’s Office named the women on Saturday. That’s how their families, and everyone else, learned who they were.

Much of the story is still blank. Officials have not said which vehicle each woman was in. They have not said what caused the crash. They have also not said whether anyone else was hurt. As of Saturday afternoon, the sheriff’s office had not put out any more details.

Nothing released so far says how Cairos and Hight knew each other, or if they knew each other at all. They were 21 years apart in age, and they came from two different towns. What the coroner’s records do show is that they died within a minute of each other.

The sheriff’s office is still investigating. More information is expected as the work goes on. For now, two families are mourning, and they’re waiting for answers like everyone else.

People are remembering Ginger Kilcrease after word of a crash on Highway 2, between Ripley and Kossuth in Mississippi. The reports are short. Even so, they are hard to read.

Only one vehicle was mentioned. No other cars or trucks were part of what has been shared so far.

The reports say that vehicle flipped several times. After that, it caught fire.

It is a rough stretch of detail for anyone who knew her. A rollover is bad. A fire after it is worse.

The reports also say the crash may have claimed a life. That part has not been confirmed. No official details had been provided in the reports.

Those details are still missing. Nothing has been said about what time it happened, who was in the vehicle, or what caused it.

What people have is a name and a place. Ginger Kilcrease is the name being shared, and the place is Highway 2, on the road between Ripley and Kossuth in northern Mississippi.

Jesus Ornelas, 46, was shot Saturday night on South Avenue B in Portales, New Mexico. Officers fought to save his life at the scene. He died later at the hospital.

Portales police got a call at about 11:30 p.m. on Oct. 24. It was a report of a shooting victim in the 600 block of South Avenue B.

Officers found Ornelas with gunshot wounds. They started life-saving measures right away. They did not stop until medical crews arrived.

Emergency Medical Services took over and kept working on him. He was taken to Roosevelt General Hospital.

Ornelas did not make it. He died there from his injuries.

The 9th Judicial District Major Crimes Unit has been called in to investigate. Police are treating it as a homicide, and the case is still active.

So far, police have not said what led to the shooting. They have not named a suspect.

Portales is the county seat of Roosevelt County, in eastern New Mexico near the Texas line. The shooting happened in the 600 block of South Avenue B, close to West 6th Street.

Caryn J. Coon was 22. Lauren J. Maturo was 32. Both women died Saturday night on the Garden State Parkway in Toms River, New Jersey, after two vehicles hit the back of a tractor-trailer.

New Jersey State Police say troopers were called at about 9:42 p.m. on Oct. 24. The crash was in the northbound lanes near milepost 87, in Ocean County on the Jersey Shore.

A Genesis had broken down in the center lane. A Freightliner tractor-trailer had stopped behind it. Police say the truck was parked there to protect the stalled car.

Coon, who was from the Forked River section of Lacey Township, was driving a Honda north. Her car hit the back of the tractor-trailer. It then went off the right side of the road and down a grassy embankment.

Moments later, a Ford SUV also hit the back of the truck. Amanda K. McHenry, 32, of New York City, was driving. Maturo, of Syosset, New York, was in the front passenger seat.

Coon and Maturo died from their injuries. McHenry was seriously hurt and was taken to a hospital. The tractor-trailer driver had minor injuries. No one else was hurt.

State police are still investigating. They have not said what led up to the crashes.

It was the fifth deadly Parkway crash in Ocean County this year, according to State Police records. This one happened north of the Toms River toll plaza, on the coast between New York City and Atlantic City.

Lacorey J. Burton was thrown from his car early Saturday morning on a stretch of Route 13 in Virginia. He was 35. He lived in Cheriton, and he died where he landed.

Virginia State Police say the crash happened at about 4:44 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 24. It was on the southbound side of Route 13, near Sylvan Scene Drive, in Northampton County.

Burton was driving a 2014 Ford Taurus. No other vehicle was involved. He was the only person in the car.

The Taurus left the road and went into a ditch. It hit a highway sign and then a culvert.

The culvert sent the car into the air. Burton was ejected from the Taurus during the crash.

He died at the scene. State police named him as a 35-year-old from Cheriton.

Troopers have not said why the car left the road. The crash remains under investigation.

Cheriton is a small community in Northampton County, on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Burton was killed on Route 13, not far from home, in the dark hours before sunrise.

Ian W. Eaves, 39, of Fort Madison, Iowa, was out on his Harley-Davidson early Friday morning. He never made it past Avenue O. A car turned in front of him, and he died in the crash.

The Iowa State Patrol says it happened at about 6:14 a.m. on Oct. 23. The spot was the 5000 block of Avenue O, in Lee County.

Eaves was heading east on a 2011 Harley-Davidson. A 2001 Chevrolet Impala was heading west, toward him. The Impala’s driver, a man from Burlington, wanted to turn left into a private driveway.

The crash report says that driver did not yield to the motorcycle. The Harley hit the Impala in the eastbound lanes.

Both vehicles ended up in the road. Several agencies came out to help at the scene.

Eaves was killed in the crash. Officials identified him as a 39-year-old from Fort Madison.

The Iowa State Patrol is investigating. Fort Madison is in Lee County, in southeast Iowa.

It was a Friday morning on a road in town, just after 6 a.m. That is where Ian Eaves was riding when the Impala turned.

Truu was a 24-year-old musician. He was hit and killed by a car on Harford Road in east Baltimore on Friday night. The people in that car ran away.

Baltimore police say the crash happened at about 10:50 p.m. on Oct. 23. It was in the 2600 block of Harford Road, near Homestead Street. Officers were sent out for a pedestrian struck by a car.

When they got there, Truu was unresponsive. Medical staff pronounced him dead at the scene.

Police say the car that hit him was a 2009 Toyota Corolla. It had been taken in a carjacking earlier that same night, at around 9:40 p.m. That happened in the 2000 block of Harford Road, a little over an hour before the crash.

After the crash, the people in the Corolla ran off on foot. The car did not go far. It stopped after it hit a metal pole with a security camera on top.

The police CRASH Team came out to document the scene. Forensics investigators flew a drone over it to take pictures.

The Banner reported it was the third deadly crash in Baltimore in three days. It was also the second deadly crash on Harford Road that week.

Harford Road is a busy street in east Baltimore. Truu was killed in the 2600 block, and the people who were in the car that struck him have not been found.

Delonzo Pennington was shot on Fidelity Avenue in Cleveland on Saturday evening. He was 33. He died where he was found.

The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office named him as the man killed. Pennington lived in Cleveland.

Cleveland police got a call about a shooting at about 9:14 p.m. Officers went to 10902 Fidelity Avenue. There, they found Pennington with gunshot wounds.

The officers did not wait. They gave him first aid and kept at it until Cleveland EMS crews got there.

It was not enough. Pennington was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Cleveland Police Crime Scene Unit came out to go over the area for evidence. The department’s Homicide Unit is now investigating the shooting.

Police have not said what led up to the gunfire. They have not named a suspect, and no motive has been made public.

The shooting happened on Fidelity Avenue in Cleveland. That is in Cuyahoga County, in the greater Cleveland area.

Jarmelo Vertudez was thrown from an SUV as it rolled over on a dark road early Saturday. He was a teen passenger. He was pronounced dead at 4:41 a.m.

The crash was reported shortly after midnight on Saturday, Oct. 24. It happened on Tuckerton Road, just east of Fry Road and near Cypress Creek Bend Drive. That is in the greater Houston area, in Harris County, Texas.

Vertudez was riding in a Lincoln Aviator driven by Griffin Trebec, the teen driver. Five passengers, all between 16 and 18, were in the SUV with him.

The Harris County Sheriff’s Office says the Lincoln and a Honda Accord were both heading east. The Lincoln was in the outside lane. The Honda was in the inside lane.

As the Lincoln came up from behind, the Honda moved over. The Lincoln hit the rear passenger side of the Honda. The Honda went off the road and slammed into a tree.

The Lincoln spun around and rolled several times. Vertudez was thrown out during the rollover.

Cy-Fair EMS asked for a LifeFlight helicopter. Vertudez was taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital in downtown Houston. Doctors pronounced him dead at 4:41 a.m.

Four other people in the Lincoln were taken to Memorial Hermann Cypress and Memorial Hermann Katy. Their injuries were not life-threatening. Trebec was also taken to Memorial Hermann Katy. Authorities say he showed signs of intoxication.

The Honda driver stayed at the scene and helped investigators. Authorities say that driver showed no signs of intoxication. The Harris County Vehicular Crimes Division is looking into the crash. No one has been charged so far, and officials have not said whether anyone will be. Cypress is an unincorporated community northwest of Houston.

Alex Eugene Killoren was thrown from his pickup truck as it rolled late Saturday night. He was 29, and he lived in Knoxville, Iowa. The crash killed him.

The Iowa State Patrol says it happened at about 11:59 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 24. That is one minute before midnight. The spot was Highway T17, east of 216th Place, near Knoxville in Marion County.

Killoren was driving west in a 2012 Chevrolet Silverado K25. The road curved, and the patrol says he did not make the turn. The truck went off the road and into a ditch.

It did not stop there. The pickup jumped over a drainage culvert and a ditch. When it came down, it pitched forward and rolled at least once.

Somewhere in that roll, Killoren was thrown out. The crash report says he came to rest west of the truck. It lists no other vehicles and no other injured people.

Emergency crews tried to save him at the scene. Pella EMS then took him to Pella Regional Health Center. The report lists his injuries as fatal. The patrol also says he was not wearing a seat belt.

Trooper Jon Thorup investigated, with help from the Marion County Sheriff’s Office. Lambirth’s Towing hauled the pickup away.

Investigators have not said why the truck left the road. The crash remains under investigation. Knoxville is the county seat of Marion County, in south-central Iowa, southeast of Des Moines.