13-Year Old Boy Killed After Crashing Pickup Into House

GALVESTON, TX — A 13-year old boy was killed early Sunday morning after he crashed the pickup he was driving into the side of a Galveston home.

Investigators were called to the area of Seawall Blvd at about 4:30 a.m. for a suspected truck burglary, according to a KTRK report.

Kenneth Edmond, who’d just graduated the 7th grade in La Marque ISD, was allegedly driving a pickup truck and led police officers on a short pursuit, who lost sight of the pickup, the Houston Chronicle reported.

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Witnesses flagged down police near the intersection of 28th Street and K Street and told them a pickup had crashed into a house.

According to a KTRK report, the pickup jumped a curb, hit a car parked in front of a home, and rolled at least once, before hitting another car and the home next door.

No one inside the home was injured, and when police arrived, they found the pickup upside down and Edmond trapped inside the pickup.

Edmond was taken to John Sealy Hospital in Galveston where he was pronounced dead a short time later.

Meanwhile, police are trying to determine who owned the pickup and whether or nor Edmond was the only one in the vehicle at the time of the crash.

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