Shasta coroner identifies Anderson man who died in Redding crash

The Shasta County Coroner's Office released the name of an Anderson man who died after being thrown from a burning car around midnight on Sunday, August 25.

The accident occurred on Buenaventura Boulevard near Teton Drive, about a mile west of Highway 273. According to a police report, Redding police officers found a vehicle fully engulfed in flames in the middle of the roadway.

Firefighters quickly extinguished the fire while rescue workers tended to a passenger who was thrown out in the accident, police said.

First responders took 21-year-old Kannon Wayne Chaney to Mercy Medical Center in Redding after the accident, where medical personnel pronounced him dead, according to a report released Tuesday by Deputy Coroner Lt. Tyler Thompson.

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According to Thompson, the Shasta County Sheriff's Office released Chaney's name after notifying his next of kin that he had died.