Fatal Encounters

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Ariel Miramon Soriano

Name: Ariel Miramon Soriano
Age: 3
Gender: Male
Race: European-American/White
Date: 05/25/2021
Location: NC-70 and N Oak Forest Road
Goldsboro, North Carolina, 27534
County: Wayne
Agency: Goldsboro Police Department
Cause of Death: Vehicle
Intended Use of Force: Pursuit
Media summary: Goldsboro police were alerted to a careless driver who was speeding about 11:20 a.m. An unmarked Goldsboro police cruiser with lights and sirens on pulled up behind the pickup truck in an attempt to stop the vehicle. The alleged driver of the pickup truck, 39-year-old Christopher Kelly Blair, didn't stop and instead slammed into a white sedan that was then pushed into another truck. Ariel Sorian, 3, was in a child car seat in the back seat of the white sedan and was killed.
Unique ID: 30302

News article: Link






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