The Denver medical examiner’s office has released the identities of two men killed early Thursday in a in which a good Samaritan was one of the victims.
Juan M. Perez, 50, and Rodney Johnson, 60, were killed in chain-reaction auto-pedestrian incidents at 56th Avenue and Pena Boulevard, according to a news release Friday by the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner.
Perez was pronounced dead at the scene and Johnson was taken by ambulance to the University of Colorado Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, the news release says. Both men died of blunt force injuries, it says.
Perez allegedly got out of his car at a four-way stop at 56th Avenue and Pena Boulevard, said John White, Denver police spokesman.
While Perez was pounding on the car another man ran him over.
Johnson, who witnessed the confrontation, stopped his car and jumped out to help the man lying on the street.
As Johnson did so, a man in a third car ran into both men on the street, White said.
