Wheeling man killed after running himself over with truck
A 60-year-old Wheeling man died Sunday morning after running himself over with a large landscaping truck, police say.
Jose Cordoba, of the 1000 block of Beverly Drive, was driving the Ford F-450 truck with the door open when he fell out and was rolled over, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene when police and paramedics arrived about 11:45 a.m. Sunday, Deputy Chief Todd Wolff said.
Cordoba had been using his brother's landscaping truck to move dirt at his home.
"It's just a freak accident," Wolff said.
Investigators with the Major Case Assistance Team, an organization of 22 suburban police departments, investigated. An autopsy is scheduled later today.
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