Maryland National Guard Spc. Joseph Lee DePasquale Killed In Jarrettsville Crash Sunday

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JARRETTSVILLE, Md. (WJZ) — The Maryland National Guard is mourning the nonaccomplishment of a guardsman killed successful a clang successful Harford County implicit the weekend.

“It’s with a precise dense bosom that we denote the nonaccomplishment of 1 of our own,” MDNG posted to societal media Thursday.

According to the Harford County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to the 3900 artifact of Old Federal Hill Road successful Jarrettsville for a study of a clang astatine 5:34 p.m. connected Sunday. They recovered a single-vehicle clang with 2 occupants inside. The conveyance was engulfed successful flames.

Spc. Joseph Lee DePasquale, 35, of Annapolis was declared dormant astatine the scene. A 14-year-old rider was flown to Johns Hopkins Pediatric Emergency Department for attraction of non-life-threatening injuries.

The sheriff’s bureau believes DePasquale was traveling eastbound connected Old Federal Hill Road successful a 2017 Ford Expedition erstwhile the conveyance ran disconnected the road, struck a histrion trunk and caught fire.

A neighbour heard the clang and rushed to help. That idiosyncratic broke the car model and pulled the teen to information earlier the Ford caught fire.

Preliminary grounds suggests excessive velocity whitethorn person been a contributing origin of the crash, the sheriff’s bureau said. It is besides unclear if DePasquale was wearing a seatbelt, authorities said.Co. 1st Battalion

DePasquale came to the Maryland National Guard successful October 2014. According to officials, helium served arsenic an infantryman assigned to C Co 175th Infantry Regiment.

He was among the guardsman who helped with the state’s COVID-19 response.

“Through his subject service, helium earned the Army Reserve Component Achievement Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Army Service Ribbon, and the Army Reserve Component Overseas Training Ribbon,” the Maryland National Guard said successful a property release.

“Spc. Joseph DePasquale epitomized the optimism, dedication, and fraternity that turns a radical of men into a set of brothers,” said Capt. Bradley S. Dmuchowski, commandant for C Co., 1-175 Inf. Regt. “His committedness and emotion for his family, his unit, and his assemblage made him the perfect Guardsman. DePasquale was ever the archetypal to unpaid and did truthful happily. While helium cannot beryllium replaced arsenic an individual, his affirmative interaction connected the satellite astir him volition proceed to impact affirmative alteration agelong aft he’s gone. He volition beryllium missed by his full 175th Infantry family, but helium volition ne'er beryllium forgotten.”

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Anyone who whitethorn person witnessed the crash, oregon has immoderate accusation regarding the incident, is asked to telephone the Harford County Sheriff’s Office Traffic Unit astatine 443-409-3324