Motorcyclist Who Was Killed By Passenger Train Identified

A motorcyclist who was killed by an Amtrak train in Shasta Lake City last month has been identified by the Shasta County Coroner’s Office as 34-year-old Richard Wesley Beaver. At around 4:30PM the afternoon of Saturday December 21st, the passenger train was south of Shasta Dam Boulevard and west of La Mesa Avenue when it hit Beaver, who was riding a dirt bike at the time. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The sheriff’s office is still investigating the circumstances of Beaver’s death.

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