Severna Park man dies when truck runs over him

A Severna Park man died early Saturday when, police said, he was run over by the truck he was driving after he got out of the vehicle while backing downadriveway. AnneArundel County police said Jose Romeo Lopez-Villata, 30, was attempting to back a Ford F-350 out of his driveway in the 100 block of W. Earleigh Heights Road. Spokesman Marc Limansky said that at some point the mangot out of the truck and the vehicle kept rolling backward, crushing Lopez-Villata, who was declared dead at the scene. It is unclear why the truck continued to move after the driver got out. The owner of the truck, Edin A. Sandoval-Flores, 41, said Lopez-Villata had moved up from Florida and the two worked together a handful of times with Sandoval-Flores’ business, Sandoval Services. Sandoval-Flores said the two had been at a restaurant earlier in the day and had “a couple of beers” before they came home. Limansky said alcohol is believed have contributed to the incident.

Cromwell Valley Park sign is vandalized

the park had been destroyed, smashed down the middle into shards. “We thought at first that a vehicle ran through the thing,” said R. Kirk Dreier, a senior naturalist and ranger. “Then we realized when we called police that it was vandalized.” Baltimore County Police spokeswoman Officer Jennifer Peach said a police report taken Saturday morning noted muddy footprints on the pieces of the sign, “as if someone had kicked it down and then stepped on it.” The sign will be replaced by Baltimore County, which owns the park, said Mia Walsh, president of the Cromwell Valley Park Council. Dreier estimated that the foam core sign costs between $8,000 and $10,000. Walsh posted a photo of the destroyed sign on the park’s Facebook page and received what she described as an “outpouring of support.” More than 80 people had shared the post as of Monday. Since Saturday, Walsh said, the park has received more than $1,000 in donations from 38 community members, ranging from$5to $100. “It’s beenvery heartwarming,” Walsh said of the community’s support. “Especially during Thanksgiving, it puts everything into perspective.”