Waller County Deputy Dies Responding To High Water Rescue

HOCKLEY, TEXAS — The severe storms that moved through the Houston area Wednesday night claimed the life of a Waller County Sheriff’s deputy. Officials said 23-year-old Loren Vasquez was responding to a high water call at FM 362 and Hoover Road when her patrol car was overtaken by flood waters and rolled.

Vasquez was pronounced dead at Memorial Hermann Hospital in Cypress.

Deputies responded to her calls for help and tried in vain to free her, but they were unable to get the doors to her patrol car open in the high water, officials said.

Shortly after Vasquez was pronounced dead, sheriff's deputies saluted her and escorted her body to the medical examiner's office in Houston where an autopsy will be performed.

Vasquez had only recently completed training and was on her third shift of working alone when she lost her life, officials said Thursday.

The deputy's cause of death is under investigation.

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