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| Katy Police Officer Cody Parchman |
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| Taylor McShan |
A police officer in Katy is without a job today, after his involvement in a fatal crash that killed a woman and her 12-year-old son. Investigators say the driver of the pickup truck who hit the family was drunk and the officer was actually the passenger in that truck.
Katy Police Officer Cody Parchman was originally suspended and put on administrative leave early Thursday morning right after that deadly wreck. On Friday, Parchman was officially fired.
Katy Police Chief Bill Hastings says he had no choice but to fire Parchman, who had been on the force for about a month. Chief Hastings made the scene after Thursday morning's deadly accident and told us he had reason to believe the off-duty Katy police officer was intoxicated.
It was Parchman’s truck that crashed into the mother and her teenage son. Parchman was riding in the passenger seat. Taylor McShan, the man driving Parchman's truck, is suspected of being drunk and has now been charged with two counts of intoxication manslaughter.
The victims, Katherine Addison, 48, and her son Kendall, 12, had pulled over on the shoulder of I-10 just west of Brookshire after getting a flat tire in the early morning hours. Police say as the mother was trying to fix the tire, a pickup truck slammed into their car, causing it to burst into flames, killing the mother and son.
According to the Katy Police Department, Parchman will not face any criminal charges.
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