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Alexander Richard Emm

Age : 20

Gender : Male

Race : Latino/a/e

Date : 05/07/2022

Location : Interstate 80 near Washoe County mile marker 43

City : Fernley area

County : Washoe

State : Nevada

Agency : Nevada State Police, Highway Patrol Division

Officer(s) :Not Disclosed

Cause of Death : Vehicle

Event : Driver killed after traffic stop

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

REASON FOR CHASE: Nevada State Police responded to reports of a vehicle repeatedly failing to maintain its lane on Interstate 80. A trooper located Alexander Richard Emm and conducted a traffic stop. After initially stopping on the shoulder, Emm made a U-turn and began driving west in the eastbound lanes.
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NARRATIVE:
On 05/07/2022, 20-year-old Alexander Richard Emm of Yerington was killed when the 2007 Ford Fiesta he was driving collided head-on with another vehicle on Interstate 80 in Washoe County shortly after a Nevada State Police traffic stop.
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At approximately 3:56 p.m., Nevada State Police received reports of a white Ford Fiesta traveling east on Interstate 80 near State Route 439/USA Parkway and repeatedly failing to maintain its travel lane. A Highway Patrol trooper located the vehicle near Washoe County mile marker 47.
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The trooper initiated a traffic stop and directed Emm onto the right shoulder. Emm initially stopped. He then made a U-turn on the interstate and began traveling west in the eastbound lanes toward oncoming traffic.
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Approximately four miles from the traffic-stop location, near mile marker 43, Emm's Ford collided with an eastbound Jeep Grand Cherokee. Emm suffered fatal injuries and died at the scene. The Jeep driver was transported to a hospital with injuries.
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Nevada State Police reported that impairment was suspected in the collision. Because that determination was attributed to police rather than established independently in the available reporting, it should not be stated as fact.
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The Nevada State Police Northern Command West Multi-Disciplinary Investigation and Reconstruction Team investigated the fatal collision under case #220500447. The available account establishes a police-initiated traffic stop immediately before Emm began driving the wrong direction, but does not establish that police actively pursued his vehicle after he left the stop.
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Emm was born on 05/20/2001 and was 20 years old when he died, less than two weeks before his 21st birthday. I located memorial references consistent with Alexander Richard Emm of Yerington, but I am keeping biographical material out of the final narrative unless it can be independently tied to him through a sufficiently reliable source.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
Nevada State Police did not publicly identify the Highway Patrol trooper who conducted the traffic stop in the verified sources located. No subsequent active police pursuit is described in the available official account.
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SOURCE LINKS :

https://www.carsonnow.org/05/31/2022/yerington-man-identified-fatal-i-80-washoe-county-crash