The driving force who first stumbled upon the physique of an adolescent who mysteriously died throughout a wild occasion has damaged his silence.
Noah Presgrove, 19, was carrying solely footwear when his physique was found on a desolate stretch of US-81 close to Terral, Oklahoma, on September 4.
He was final seen alive a couple of mile away at a four-day twenty second celebration with associates over the Labor Day weekend that was closely documented on social media.
Gulfmark Vitality discipline supervisor Tyler Hardy was the primary identified particular person to search out {the teenager}’s physique, and known as 911 at 5.53am.
Hardy spoke to native cops on the scene and stated he was interviewed thrice by Oklahoma Freeway Patrol detectives, however is simply now talking publicly.
Noah Presgrove, 19, was carrying solely footwear when his physique was found on a desolate stretch of US-81 in Terral, Oklahoma, on September 4
Gulfmark Vitality discipline supervisor Tyler Hardy (pictured together with his spouse Mallory) was the primary identified particular person to search out Presgrove’s physique, and known as 911 at 5.53am
‘I used to be the one who discovered the physique so sure I can say 100 per cent that no person messed with Noah, I used to be the primary particular person there,’ he stated.
‘I do know who and what I noticed.’
The married father-of-two was driving south in darkness to an early shift when he noticed one thing within the headlights of his Ford F-150 work pickup truck.
He pulled over to take a more in-depth look and realized he was trying on the physique of a younger man, lifeless by the aspect of the street.
Hardy stated Presgrove’s physique was mendacity within the fetal place, completely bare aside from mismatched footwear, with a pair of white shorts mendacity on the street about 25ft away.
Crucially, Hardy stated there was little or no blood on the scene regardless of {the teenager}’s huge upper-body accidents, together with three cranium fractures.
A medical professional instructed DailyMail.com that with the accidents detailed in Presgrove’s post-mortem report, there would have been a number of blood on the scene,
Many associates, household, and locals imagine Presgrove did not die the place he was discovered and was as an alternative killed elsewhere and his physique dumped on the freeway.
Confronting pictures of police chalk outlines confirmed the place his physique, marked by the white line, and not less than one in all his tooth, marked by the circle, have been discovered
Hardy stayed with the physique as a Oklahoma Petroleum Allies semi-truck he had been behind rotated in Terral, about two miles south, and got here again to the scene.
‘I known as it in and so did the truck driver, we have been on the telephone with them on the similar time,’ he stated.
‘We didn’t depart the scene till round 10am and no person was messing with something.’
Lower than 10 minutes after each he and the truck driver known as 911, Presgrove’s finest pal Jack Newton arrived.
‘Jack was the one one who walked as much as to Noah, and he instructed me who it was, till the Terral hearth and Jefferson County Sheriffs confirmed up,’ Hardy stated.
Newton additionally instructed DailyMail.com that there was minimal blood on the scene – solely slightly popping out of his ears and on the highest of his head the place a part of his scalp was torn away to the bone.
Presgrove’s physique was discovered a couple of mile north alongside the freeway from the small road the place the occasion was held
Presgrove’s physique was discovered between the 2 chalk traces, and tooth throughout the circles. Within the background is a memorial arrange for {the teenager}
Presgrove’s finest pal known as his father Caleb Newton about 6.05am to interrupt the information, and he hurried to the scene about 40 minutes down the freeway from his dwelling in Comanche.
By then, police had arrived at 6.18am and coated Presgrove’s physique with a tarp or sheet and folded the shorts by the aspect of the street close to his physique.
Jack stated he awakened able to go fishing and was instructed his finest pal was lacking.
‘I figured possibly he acquired a trip or one thing, Noah’s achieved that earlier than – acquired mad and left,’ he instructed DailyMail.com.
‘He was not one you often fear about. I wasn’t actually interested by it.’
Jack was speculated to go fishing together with his father that day and texted him at 5.53am – coincidentally the identical time because the 911 name – letting him know he was on his approach.
‘I will meet y’all on the lake. Are you able to deliver me a hat please… Somebody messed with mine after I went to mattress,’ he wrote. Caleb replied ‘okay’.
Jack assumed Presgrove was high quality and left for the lake, driving north till he noticed the semi-trailer and pickup by the aspect of the street.
Jack Newton, Presgrove’s finest pal, arrived quickly after Hardy and the truck driver discovered the physique and known as 911
Jack texted his father, Caleb Newton, at 5.53am letting him know he was on his approach
Oklahoma Chief Medical Examiner Leonardo Roquero dominated Presgrove died of ‘a number of blunt power accidents’, however how he acquired them was ‘undetermined’.
His post-mortem report launched on Might 13 detailed intensive accidents to the teenager’s higher physique, together with 10 damaged ribs, severe cranium, neck, and backbone fractures, inside bleeding, mind and organ injury, and cuts and grazes throughout his physique.
There was one intensive cranium fracture operating throughout his head, ‘splitting the center base of cranium into two’, and two smaller ones, with police investigators describing his head as being ‘caved in’.
Roquero wrote that there have been ‘no automobile elements or particles noticed on the scene’, indicating Presgrove was nearly definitely not hit by a automobile.
‘He was bare and was solely carrying unmatching footwear. There was a pair of shorts discovered a number of ft from the decedent and was reported to be his,’ Roquero wrote.
‘Moreover, there have been three items of a white steel chain in addition to a part of a tooth current a number of ft from the decedent.’
Presgrove was a highschool soccer participant till his commencement in Might
Roquero famous there was ‘a drawing in black ink of a stick-figure particular person on the aspect of the suitable thigh’.
The shorts he was carrying have been undamaged, regardless of the grazes on his buttocks, and the slip-on footwear had grass and different particles lodged in them.
Presgrove had a blood alcohol stage of 0.14, however no medicine in his system.
Confronting pictures of police chalk outlines confirmed his tooth have been discovered scattered throughout the freeway, some a dozen ft from his physique.
