Missoula-born Marine dies exiting cab in New York

Missoula-born Marine dies exiting cab in New York
Posted: May 26, 2011
by Breanna Roy (KPAX News)

NEW YORK CITY- A Missoula-born Marine died during Fleet Week in New York City early Thursday morning.

The Marines notified the family of Steven Jorgenson, 22, that a car struck and killed him while he was getting out of a cab, headed back to his ship. He was wearing his uniform. The driver of the passenger car that hit him has not been cited.

Jorgenson had been married just seven months. His wife, Hope Jorgenson, was waiting at home in North Carolina for his call that night. She received a call around 4 a.m. from his phone, but all she heard was static on the line.

"Maybe that was his way of letting her know that wherever he was at that time, he was fine," Jorgenson's mother-in-law Grace Hinojosa said. She said it also could have been the authorities at the crash scene dialing his last outgoing number.
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Missoula-born Marine dies exiting cab in New York