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FD-30% (Rev.3-17-69) FELRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION 7 Date .... 6/19/70 LEONARD W. GILMAN, Deputy Regional Commissioner in Charge of Operations, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INs), Terminal Island, California, advised that on May 10, 197o, at approximately 12:05 a.m., while traveling with HARLON B.CARTER,Regional Commissioner, in a Government owned l969 Chevrolet, their vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian by' the name of LUTHER CURLY on the Riverside Freeway between Jackson and Van Buren, near the City of Riverside, California.' GILMAN said he and Mr. CARTER were on official business returning from New Mexico to the Long Beach area. He said they had stopped in Casa Grande, Arizona, for a.rest and coffee break, and again in Blythe and Indio, California, where they-had coffee and cokes and serviced their automobile. He said they had taken turns driving and were mentally awake and alert, as they proceeded along the Riverside Freeway in Riverside County, California, at about midnight. He said Mr. CARTeR was driving the vehicle at this time and he was turned facing slightly toward Mr. CARTER at the time of the acci- dent. ..He said their vehicle was traveling on the inside south bound lane (fast lane) at a speed of approximately 65 miles an hour when suddenly something lurched from the side of the road less than three feet in front of them, which their vehicle struck. GiLMAN said it was completely without He said he told CARreR he thought.it was human, and they immediately proceeded to the shoulder of the road, where they stopped their vehicle to investigate. GILMAN said CARTER backed his vehicle a short dis- tance down the freeway and then they both rushed to the scene of the accident on foot where they found a male Indian boy about 19 years of. age,. stretched out perpindicular to the freeway, completely motionless, without any signs of bleeding present, of. the appearance of being dead. He said in examin- ing the boy, his eyes were open and rolled back. He had no pulse or any sign of breath and was apparently dead. GILmAN said he could see. a woman standing across tho-freeway--on-the- north bound- side,- direetly aeross from- where 6/15/70 at Terminal Island, Californikile# Los Angeles 120-936 On. b6 SA (A)/vsm by Date dictated - 6/16/70 b7C -13- This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.