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Nearly a year after the body of Noah Pressgrove, an aspiring military teenager from Oklahoma, was discovered on the side of a highway, a 911 call revealed the disturbing scene two witnesses encountered the following morning.
Noah Pressgrove, 19, was found dead along a rural road off US-81. Jefferson County, OklahomaLabor Day 2023. He was last seen alive that night at a party he attended with a group of friends.
A coroner’s report determined Pressgrove died from “multiple blunt force trauma.”
Fox News Digital obtained two 911 calls from drivers who initially thought they saw a deer lying on the side of the road, but later discovered it was human remains.
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Noah Pressgrove’s body was discovered along a highway in Oklahoma on Labor Day 2023. His cause of death is still unknown. (Madison Rawlings/Kristen Smith)
“Looks like somebody got hit. Looks like someone walking on the highway and they’re lying on the side of the road,” one caller tells a police dispatcher in the recording. “Yeah, it just looks like they’re lying on the side of the road and they were walking and somebody hit them. I thought it was a deer but it looks like a dead body.”
The caller later told dispatchers the scene was “very strange.”
A few minutes later, another witness called 911 to report seeing a body on the side of the same highway in the same location as the first caller.
“I was on my way to work south of Teral and noticed someone dead lying on the side of the road. They appeared to be naked,” the caller told the operator.
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“I’m sitting here blocking the road and there’s a body lying right on the white line,” the caller said, confirming to police that it was a naked body. “I almost hit it so I turned around and at first I thought it was a deer and I was talking to the guy I work with and I said, ‘I don’t think that’s a deer,'” the caller said.
A second caller said there also appeared to be pieces of clothing in the middle of the road near the body.
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation initially described Pressgrove’s death as “suspicious,” but the official cause of Pressgrove’s death is now “unknown.”
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According to a medical examiner’s summary report obtained by Fox News Digital, Noah Pressgrove died from “multiple blunt force trauma” but the cause of the injuries is unknown. (Kristen Smith)
The caller’s description to the 911 dispatcher matches details in the coroner’s report.
“On the morning of September 4th, 2023, the deceased was found naked on the side of the highway, wearing only shoes. No vehicle parts or debris were observed at the scene. At this time, it is unknown how a body with multiple blunt force trauma injuries was discovered on the roadway. As such, the cause of death is considered undetermined,” the report states.
The report noted that Pressgrove’s cause of death was “multiple blunt force trauma” resulting from an ATV accident earlier that night.
“Further investigation revealed that on September 3, 2023, the decedent had been drinking alcohol at a house party. The decedent was then riding in an ATV ranger vehicle with several males which was involved in a rollover accident. The decedent was alive after the accident and returned to the party where he became involved in an argument with his girlfriend. The decedent left the house party and was not found until the morning of September 4, 2023 on the side of the highway,” the report continues.
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Pressgrove was 19 at the time of his death. He had graduated from Comanche High School and was planning to enlist in the military.
Pressgrove’s family set up a Facebook page called “Justice for Noah Pressgrove” and are still seeking answers nearly a year later. Rawlings said the family bears no ill will towards anyone who knows what happened to Pressgrove, they just want closure.
“I think something happened. There was an accident and the kids were scared. I don’t know if it was during fight club or if they were on an ATV or if someone got mad. I can’t imagine someone intentionally hurting Noah,” Noah’s sister, Madison Rawlings, previously told Fox News Digital. “He wasn’t in any kind of trouble, he wasn’t in any kind of drama. He was just like, whatever. So I can’t imagine something like that happening.”
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A spokesperson for the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, which has taken over the investigation, told Fox News Digital that the investigation is ongoing and that the department would not be commenting further.
