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Tragedy on US 77: How a Tire Blowout Turned a Sunday Drive into a Fatal Rollover Crash A Sugar Land Family’s World Shattered in an Instant The afternoon of Sunday, March 26, 2026, started like any other for a group of young friends from Sugar Land, Texas. Four young men—two 20-year-olds, a 19-year-old, and an 18-year-old—piled into a 2015 Jeep Wrangler for what should have been a routine drive northbound on US 77 near the Victoria County line. None of them could have imagined that within minutes, their lives would be forever changed by a catastrophic equipment failure that would claim one life and leave the others fighting for their own. At approximately 1:54 p.m., as the Jeep traveled along US 77, the left rear tire suddenly blew out. The driver lost control of the vehicle, sending it veering into the grassy shoulder on the east side of the roadway. What happened next was a nightmare scenario: the Jeep rolled over multiple times before coming to rest on its side, facing west. During the violent rollover, two rear-seat passengers were ejected from the vehicle. The 19-year-old driver and 20-year-old front-seat passenger were transported by EMS to Citizens Medical Center in Victoria. The two ejected rear-seat passengers—a 20-year-old and an 18-year-old—were airlifted by HALO-Flight to CHRISTUS Spohn Shoreline Hospital in Corpus Christi. Tragically, two days later, on Tuesday afternoon, one of the rear-seat passengers succumbed to his injuries. Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Rob Mallory identified him as 20-year-old Jakendryck…