Dispatcher ID’d In Fatal Vehicle Accident

Police in South Charleston (W. Virg.) have identified the victim of an accident at 7:30 a.m. today as Shawn Aldridge, 42, a dispatcher at the South Charleston detachment of the West Virginia State Police. Police say Aldridge was traveling north on Jefferson Road when his Jeep convertible ran off the road into a ditch, and overturned several times. Aldridge was not wearing a seat belt, police say, and was thrown from the vehicle. He was declared dead at the scene. A State Police spokesperson did not say if Aldridge had either just left work or was arriving for a shift at the comm center. The Troop 4 headquarters is less than a mile north of the accident location, the direction Aldridge was headed when the accident occurred.