KILLEEN (AP) – The Army has identified the Fort Hood soldier killed while directing traffic at a car accident last week.
22-year-old Spc. Cole Jakob Aton of Science Hill, Kentucky had been a Patriot missile operator with the 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade since August 2018.
According the Texas Department of Public Safety, Aton had stopped the night of August 12th at a minor traffic accident on Interstate 14 in Killeen, near Fort Hood.
DPS said he was hit by a car that crested an overpass and whose driver didn’t see Aton as he stood in the roadway.
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