Tucson police: Boy, 15, killed in motorcycle crash

A 15-year-old died Sunday afternoon after he crashed a motorcycle into a pickup truck on Tucson’s southeast side, police said.

Kenneth Shane Decker was riding a 1990 Kawasaki K1250 at a high rate of speed about 3:15 p.m. when he ran a stop sign and smashed into a white 2007 GMC Sierra in a neighborhood near East 29th Street and South Harrison Road, Tucson police said in a news release Tuesday.

Decker, who did not have a driver's license, was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital where he was later pronounced dead, the release said.

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So far this year, TPD has investigated two fatal motorcycle crashes. At this time last year, TPD had investigated five fatal motorcycle crashes.