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I know I am coming in to this convo late, but my girlfriend just told me about his memorial that she happened to catch a short glimpse of on a tv show she had recorded and my google search landed me here. It was a sad site. Truth is, a bus driver didnt find Patrick. I did. I don't care what anyone says, Patrick was wearing Desert Storm camo pants and boots that I saw and identified clearly, though I did have to swerve since he was already on the ground and took me a quick second to realize that was a body on the road. I can imagine it wouldn't have been too hard to see the light brown pants and boots and jacket pop out at you even at night, even without reflectors. The bus driver had to swerve out of the way because I was standing on the far right lane directing cars to switch lanes afraid they might hit him again while I had 911 on the phone. In a further saddened state of disgust, many pedestrians got off at the bus stop a few feet away just to look at the body. Human nature I guess, though one other person that stopped was a nurse. I wanted to reach out to the family to say that as far as I know, at least one person (me) was there praying over his body. He was a kid. There are no side walks or bike lanes on that service road. The bus driver later came back after he returned the bus to the parking garage to speak to the cops because there was a very brief moment when they thought the bus hit Patrick since it swerved. RIP Patrick.