EAGLE PASS, Texas — A Texas Army National Guard soldier was killed in a two-vehicle crash near the Texas border city of Eagle Pass on Tuesday. Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) officials identified the soldier as Jeremy Vance Randolph, 44, of Dallas, Texas. The accident occurred at 1 p.m. on U.S. Highway 277, about 24 miles north of Eagle Pass.
Randolph was driving a Ford passenger van at the time of the accident. The driver of a 2019 Ford F-150 experienced a flat left front tire on the truck, lost control of the vehicle, and veered into oncoming traffic, killing Randolph. The red Ford 150 eventually collided with the white Ford passenger van that Randolph was driving.
Texas DPS Highway Patrol troopers responded to the scene of the accident and are investigating. Randolph was transported by ambulance to Fort Duncan Regional Medical Center (FDRMC) where he was later pronounced dead. The unidentified driver and two passengers in the red F-15o truck were transported by ground ambulance to FDRMC. Information on their condition at the medical center has not been released.
Randolph was deployed to the border region as part of Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star. The Eagle Pass deployment also includes soldiers stationed at a new facility just south of the border city that will house 1,800 troops and can be renovated to accommodate another 500 soldiers if needed.
Since the start of Operation Lone Star, the multi-agency effort has resulted in the arrest of more than 512,300 illegal immigrants, more than 43,400 criminal arrests, and more than 38,200 felony charges. In combating the fentanyl crisis, Texas law enforcement agencies have seized more than 487 million lethal doses of fentanyl during this border operation – enough to kill every man, woman, and child in the United States and Mexico.
As of April, Texas also transports:
- More than 12,500 migrants have flowed into Washington, DC since April 2022
- More than 45,000 immigrants have entered New York City since August 2022
- More than 36,500 immigrants have arrived in Chicago since August 2022
- More than 3,400 immigrants have arrived in Philadelphia since November 2022
- More than 19,000 people will move to Denver starting in May 2023
- More than 1,500 immigrants to Los Angeles since June 2023
Randy Clark Randy Clark is a 32-year veteran of the U.S. Border Patrol. Prior to his retirement, he served as Chief of the Law Enforcement Operations Division, where he led operations for nine Border Patrol stations in the Del Rio Sector, Texas. Follow him at @RandyClarkBBTX.
