Louisiana State Police have identified the victim of a fatal car accident on Saturday as Jackson Murray, an accounting senior from Houston.Police are investigating the accident, and the cause is unclear, according to a news release.Murray’s vehicle was traveling on I-10 east at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday when it crossed the median for unknown reasons and traveled through the westbound lanes at a high rate of speed, the release said.The vehicle then struck a tree before catching fire, according to the release.Murray was dead when police arrived, and toxicology results are pending, according to the report.The report said no other passengers were in the car and identified speeding as a suspected factor for the crash.”He will be remembered as very outgoing but always veryintelligent,” said Tyler Abadie, president of Murray’s fraternity, Phi Delta Theta.Justin Carpenter, accounting senior, described Murray as one of his best friends and said they had planned to catch up this weekend.”I will be waiting on that Saturday for the rest of my life,” Carpenter said.
—-Contact Xerxes A. Wilson
Student dies Sat. in car accident
April 19, 2010