Crime & Safety
Marine Who Died in Parachuting Accident Near Perris ID'd
Caleb Medley suffered fatal injuries around 3 p.m. Tuesday near Perris Valley Airport.
A U.S. Marine killed in a skydiving accident just north of Perris Valley Airport was identified Wednesday as a 26-year-old Burlington, Colo., resident.
Caleb Medley suffered fatal injuries around 3 p.m. Tuesday when his parachute apparently failed to deploy and he plummeted into a storage yard in the 2000 block of Goetz Road, according to the Riverside County Coroner's Office.
The Camp Pendleton-based Marine was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Medley was doing training exercises at Perris Valley Skydiving with a group of Marines from Camp Pendleton at the time.
The circumstances of the accident were under investigation, sheriff's officials said.
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Meanwhile, the Marine Corps has not confirmed his identity, though the 1st Marine Division did announce that a Camp Pendleton-based Marine had died during a training accident Tuesday.
More information about the incident was expected to be released Thursday morning, a spokesman for the 1st Marine Division at Camp Pendleton told Patch Wednesday.
—City News Service and Maggie Avants contributed to this report.
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