JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office is investigating following a fatal crash in Arlington on Friday morning.
Action News Jax reporter Amber Krycka has a full report on CBS47 at 5:
Right now, a young woman is recovering following a crash that killed her boyfriend.
“All I could do is cry, and I’ve cried for about an hour and 30 minutes now,” said Warren Nobles, a friend of the victim.
Family gave me this picture of Logan Garris - he was killed in an early morning crash. Just a few blocks away, detectives & technicians spent most of the day at this home — where family says Logan lived. pic.twitter.com/Q0fAm76GWC
— Amber Krycka (@AmberANjax) June 14, 2019
Nobles looked out at the crash site where his friend took his last breath.
“The only way I could really find peace with it is to see the last place he was on this earth,” he said.
Police said around 5 a.m. Friday, a car traveling down Townsend Boulevard for some reason left the road and crashed.
The driver was taken to a hospital and is expected to survive.
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The passenger died.
Nobles and family said he’s Logan Garris, 20, and his girlfriend was behind the wheel.
Just a few blocks from the crash, several detectives and crime scene technicians spent most of the day collecting evidence from an apartment on Townsend.
Family told Action News Jax that’s where Garris lived.
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Garris’ brother told us he’s not getting a lot of information from police, other than there was some kind of argument before the crash.
“I just want everybody to know that he was a good guy,” said Nobles.
The death has inspired Nobles to change his own life.
“I look forward to being a better person, trying to be safer, trying to make better decisions and live in his name,” he said.
- JSO responded to a call around 5:15 a.m. regarding the incident which was near a Publix supermarket.
- Townsend Boulevard was closed in both directions between Sandhurst Road and Merrill.
- The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department was at the scene and pronounced the passenger in the car dead, according to the JSO incident report.
- The driver of the vehicle was taken to a hospital, according to JSO.
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