Jerk vendor killed in road crash in Portland
Published:Sunday | June 18, 2023 | 2:05 PM
A popular jerk vendor in Portland died in a motor vehicle accident on Sunday morning after a car he was driving ran off the road and over a precipice and landed some 300 feet below.
He has been identified as 60-year-old Gilbert Hall, popularly known as 'Honest John', of a Land Settlement address in Portland.
Police sources have reported that Hall, who attended a wake at Ginger House in the upper Rio Grande Valley, was driving home about 2 a.m, when the Toyota Corolla station wagon he was driving crashed.
Some hours later, residents reportedly spotted a car in the ravine.
A search party discovered Hall's motionless body trapped inside the wrecked vehicle, which had overturned.
He was later pronounced dead.
- Gareth Davis
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