An accident at around 3:40-a.m. Tuesday (Today) in southern Iowa’s Decatur County had claimed the life of a 35-year old male. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2002 Ford SUV driven by 32-year old Ashley Jean Rice-Tetley, of Des Moines, was traveling south on Highway 169, just north of County Road J-14, when she struck Cornelius Andrew Zolicoffer, of Des Moines, who was  in the middle of the southbound roadway.

The man was pronounced dead at the Decatur County Hospital. The incident remains under investigation.