FORT PIERCE, Fla. — The truck driver who died in a crash along with a Florida Highway Patrol trooper on Friday was identified Wednesday by the agency as a 55-year-old man from Homestead, Arsenio Mas.
Originally the agency said they would only be releasing the age and city of the victim and not the name “out of respect” for his family.
Images of Mas on his Facebook page were approved by the family for WPTV to use.
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WPTV reporter Joel Lopez interviewed his daughter, Yeisel Más Dominguez, who lives in Cuba.
She told Lopez the whole family is devastated.
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“This accident has ended my life sincerely,” Dominguez said in Spanish. “It has traumatized me.”
Dominguez, 34, said her father moved to the United States when she was 13 for a better life.
He had four children and a partner.
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Dominguez said her father planned to visit Cuba next month for his mother and granddaughter’s birthdays.
“I want to see him again to give him a big hug,” she said.
The family is working on funeral arrangements, but Dominguez doesn’t believe she will be able to get a visa in time to say goodbye.
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Mas was killed in a collision with the cruiser of Zachary Fink, 26, early Friday in Fort Pierce.
Fink had been pursuing a felon on Interstate 95 in St. Lucie County.
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The St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office on Monday released an arrest report detailing the suspect’s actions before and after the crash.
Michael Addison, 30, of Lauderdale Lakes, is facing several charges in connection to the deaths of Fink and Mas.
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Fink, a three-year veteran of the agency, was pursuing a person driving a white Kia in a “reckless manner” and traveling more than 100 mph on Interstate 95 just before 3 a.m.
Just south of Crosstown Parkway, the Kia attempted to make a U-turn to drive north in the southbound lanes to escape the pursuit.
Fisk then collided with Mas’ truck.
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In Port St. Lucie, the driver took off on foot, triggering a massive, multi-agency manhunt, according to the FHP. He was arrested and ultimately taken to the St. Lucie County Jail.
Fink was flown to HCA Florida Lawnwood Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
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