Lightning killed National Guardsman
RIO RANCHO, N.M. (KRQE) - The young father killed by a bolt of lightning ahead of Rio Rancho's Fourth of July fireworks show was an Army veteran and a New Mexico National Guardsman.
Jarrod Truesdale, 26, was waiting out a storm at Loma Colorado Park with his wife, four kids and sister-in-law when the bolt hit.
He died at the hospital. His wife is still in serious condition.
The others are OK.
Truesdale was also a federal law enforcement officer with the Department of Energy.
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