An Oklahoma family is still searching for answers nearly a year after Noah Pressgrove was found naked and dead along a rural highway on Labor Day.
According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Pressgrove’s body was discovered in the early hours of September 4, 2023, along Route 81 in Jefferson County, about 1.9 miles north of Teral, Oklahoma.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Presgrove’s sister, Madison Rawlings, recalled the fateful day she learned her brother had died.
“I live in South Texas. I live about eight hours away. So I got a call early that morning, probably around 7 o’clock, saying something had happened to Noah and he had passed away. So I loaded up my car and drove.” Eight hours later, I made a detour around Noah’s body. I don’t know if they picked him up off the ground. It was still slowing down traffic at that point,” Rawlings said.
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Noah Presgrove, 19, was wearing only his shoes when his body was found on a desolate stretch of Route 81 near Teral, Oklahoma, on Labor Day 2023. (Kristen Smith)
Pressgrove was last seen alive that night at a party he attended with friends, but seven months later his family still wonders how he died along the highway. He said he still doesn’t know if he did it.
Rowling said the house where her brother was partying was 30 miles away from where he lived, and that on the night of his death he never walked home from the party or tried to contact anyone. Ta.
“He doesn’t just walk home. But I think there were probably other times where Noah got frustrated and left and then came back, as if to cool his head. We I’ve heard stories like that.”So they’re all saying, “He does this all the time,” and they keep looking for him when they realize he’s not there. , they said they never found it,” Rawlings said.
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Madison Rawlings, the sister of 19-year-old Noah Presgrove, who was found dead on the side of an Oklahoma highway on Labor Day 2023, shared details with Fox News Digital about the investigation into his death. Told. (Madison Rawlings)
Loring said officers told his family early in the investigation that the possibility of a hit-and-run was ruled out because his injuries were not consistent with being hit by a car, and the death was ruled a “suspicious death” at the time. said. Authorities have since announced that they are not investigating Noah’s death as a homicide.
“If he had been hit with a mirror or hit by a semi, his condition would have been much worse than it was. So he (the police officer) would have just wiped out the whole hit-and-run incident.” They never made a statement in public, but he said there’s no way it could have been a hit and run, and that’s what happened to us. “We knew pretty early on that it wasn’t a hit-and-run,” Rawlings said.
Mr. Pressgrove’s family has created a Facebook page, “Justice for Noah Pressgrove,” to keep everyone updated on the status of his case.
“His family and friends are grieving his loss and have unanswered questions,” Ashley Chadwick, one of Mr. Pressgrove’s cousins, said in a post. “As a community, we stand united. We can celebrate his life and keep his memory alive.”
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Noah Pressgrove died of “multiple blunt force injuries,” but the cause of those injuries remains unclear, according to a coroner’s summary report obtained by Fox News Digital. (Kristen Smith)
Pressgrove was only 19 years old when he died. He graduated from Comanche High School a few months early and was planning to join the military.
“I had no idea that Noah was just hated. Everyone there seemed to really love Noah. He wasn’t someone who was really looking for trouble. He just… He didn’t just go and fight. I know, like a few times. He fought and helped his friends who were in the situation as if it wasn’t him.” he said. “I don’t know of any enemy, I don’t know of anyone who would go after him with such malicious intent. I couldn’t imagine anyone being like, ‘Oh, we need to put that guy down.’ ” That doesn’t even occur to me. ”
Mr. Rawlings gave little answer, saying the family bears no ill will toward anyone who knows what happened to Pressgrove. They just want closure.
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Noah Presgrove’s body was found along an Oklahoma highway on Labor Day 2023, but the manner of death is still unknown. (Madison Rawlings/Kristen Smith)
“Seven months is a long time, but I think we’re all pretty realistic enough to understand that Noah was number one for us and he probably wasn’t the only one who passed away. I also know that there isn’t.” That day, do you know? ” Rawlings said.
Mr Rawlings said he believed Mr Pressgrove was not intentionally killed.
“I think there was an accident and the kids got scared or something happened. I don’t know if it was during the fight club or when I was riding the ATV. , somebody got angry.’I’m not, but I can’t imagine anyone intentionally hurting Noah,” Rawlings said. “He never got into that kind of trouble, never got into that kind of drama. He was just, like, say anything. So something like that happens. I can’t imagine that.”
Rawlings added that after eight months without answers, she is hopeful someone will come forward with the truth.
Mr. Rawlings shared with Fox News Digital the medical examiner’s report, which concluded that the circumstances of Mr. Pressgrove’s death are still unclear. His cause of death is listed as “multiple blunt force injuries.”
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“Further investigation revealed that the decedent attended a house party on September 3, 2023 and was under the influence of alcohol. He then rode in an ATV Ranger vehicle with several men and crashed into a rollover vehicle. The decedent was still alive after the incident and returned to the party.” There, he got into an argument with his girlfriend, and the decedent left the house party and stayed on the side of the highway until the morning of September 4, 2023. The report states:
Rawlings said these findings simply don’t add up.
“I don’t know who the girl he’s ‘probably’ arguing with is, that’s the question I posed to the coroner,” Ms Rawlings said.
A spokesperson for the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, which took over the investigation, told Fox News Digital that the investigation is ongoing.
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But someone somewhere knows the truth. Mr Pressgrove’s cousin Lindsay Fowler is urging the person to come forward.
“At the end of the day, what we know is that he lost his life,” Fowler told KFOR. “He was found on the side of the highway and apparently dumped there, but someone knows what happened and we want to know what happened.”
