Missouri Man Dead in Rusk County Crash

RUSK COUNTY — 21-year-old Tyler J. Russell of Winona, Missouri, has been killed in a wreck on U.S. 259 ten miles north of Henderson. DPS says a preliminary investigation revealed that a truck-tractor driven by 34-year-old Fernando Gomez Gonzales of Gladewater was traveling north in the left lane around 3:15 Friday afternoon. A construction sweeper driven by Russell was traveling north in the outside lane, sweeping the roadway. Russell turned into the left lane in front of the truck-tractor, the vehicles collided, and Russell was ejected from the sweeper. He died at a Tyler hospital. The crash remains under investigation.