PIEDMONT, SC. (THECOUNT) — Luis Angel Osorio, of Piedmont, South Carolina, has been identified as the teen killed following a fall from the family vehicle on Wednesday morning.

Osorio, 14, died early Wednesday morning after falling from his family’s vehicle near their home.

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Greenville County Coroner Parks Evans said in a news release that it appears the boy fell from the family’s SUV as it was traveling down the road where the victim lived on Carly Drive.

Emergency responders arrived to find the teen unresponsive in the road near the family home around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday.

Osorio was transported to an area hospital where he was later pronounced dead Wednesday morning.

Osorio was a ninth grade student at Southside High School, according to WSPA.

His death remains under investigation by the S.C. Highway Patrol and the Greenville County Coroner’s Office.

An autopsy is scheduled Wednesday.

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Geo quick facts: Piedmont is a census-designated place along the Saluda River in Anderson and Greenville counties in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The population was 5,103 at the 2010 census. Piedmont is a part of the Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin metropolitan area – Wikipedia.