By Brad Kellar
Greenville – A charge has been levied against a Greenville man who caused a major traffic jam Tuesday, which also resulted in a fatal accident.
Police have charged 36-year-old Jack Eugene Duval Jr. with obstruction of a highway passageway. He had not been arraigned nor had bond set as of Wednesday afternoon.
Duval was reported to have climbed onto the State Highway 34/Wesley Street overpass Tuesday morning and allegedly threatened to jump.
During the nearly five hour standoff, traffic was backed up on both lanes of the interstate for miles.
64-year-old Jerry P. Garner, of Royse City, was killed in a two-vehicle accident which occurred in the midst of the back-up.