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HOUSTON – A 24-year-old Montgomery County sheriff’s deputy was killed in a crash early Sunday morning while she was on the scene of a separate crash on the North Freeway, authorities said.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n Montgomery Co. deputy killed on I-45 <\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n Deputy Erika Serrato, a six-year veteran of the sheriff’s office, died from her injuries at a hospital following the 2:39 a.m. crash near the Woodlands Parkway exit. Serrato was assigned to District 2 of the sheriff’s office.<\/p>\n According to sheriff’s officials, Dept. Serrato and other deputies were investigating a separate crash and directing traffic when a heavy-duty commercial truck pulling a trailer struck Serrato and two marked patrol units. The patrol vehicles had their emergency lights activated at the time, investigators said.<\/p>\n A second deputy was injured by flying debris during the crash. He was treated for minor injuries at a hospital and has since been released.<\/p>\n The driver of the commercial vehicle was also taken to a hospital for treatment. That driver’s condition is unknown.<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n Authorities said additional details regarding the ongoing investigation and funeral arrangements will be released in the coming days.<\/p>\n Montgomery County Judge Mark Keough announced<\/a> that Gov. Greg Abbott granted his request for all flags in the county to be lowered to half staff for Deputy Serrato’s honor.<\/p>\n Arrest in initial crash <\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Authorities identified one of the drivers involved in the initial collision as 34-year-old Ashton Jammer. Jammer has been charged with driving while intoxicated and will be booked into the Montgomery County Jail.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this article is from the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office and County Judge Mark Keough<\/p>\n Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office<\/a>Traffic<\/a>Top Stories<\/a>The Woodlands<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON – A 24-year-old Montgomery County sheriff’s deputy was killed in a crash early Sunday morning while she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,56874,7054,223,1827,2785,12042,2053,272,216,393],"class_list":["post-353943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-mcso","tag-montgomery-county","tag-news","tag-organization","tag-texas-dps","tag-the-woodlands","tag-top-stories","tag-traffic","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}