Transito "Tito" Torres (right) poses with fellow CU Proud Award recipients from Fall 2008 Emily Renaud and Andrew Samborski. Torres was killed in an accident on U.S. 36 Thursday night. (Photo courtesy of Dennis Kinde/CU Parent Vol 14. No. 2)
Updated: Dec. 4, 2009 10:05 p.m.
A pedestrian who was fatally injured on westbound U.S. 36 Thursday night has been identified as 22-year-old CU student Transito (Tito) Eduardo Torres, according to the Coroner’s Office. Police said Friday that they suspect Torres jumped from the Table Mesa Drive overpass.
Torres, a senior women’s studies major, was hit by a Mercury Mountaineer, according to a Boulder Police Department news release. Several passengers in the SUV were sent to the hospital for non-life threatening injuries.
The accident occurred at around 8:20 p.m., according to the news release.
Boulder Police have reason to believe Torres was hit after jumping from an overpass bridge above the highway, according to an update released by the police department Friday. Evidence has indicated that he was lying on the ground and severely injured as a result of the fall.
While at CU, Torres was a Smith Hall International Program mentor and RA, and won the “CU Proud” Award during his sophomore year, according to the fall 2008 edition of the Parents Association newsletter.
An investigation of the accident is ongoing, according to the update. The CU Independent will publish more information as it becomes available.
Contact CU Independent Deadline News Editor Sara Morrey at Sara.morrey@colorado.edu.
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RIP Tanchito.. Thank you all who have been with him these last few years. He was an amazing person.
Our family is devastated to have lost such a wonderful person.