El Paso ( Disabled highway worker hit and killed by car- Suspect wanted )

Sheriffs deputies investigate the scene of a hit-and-run wreck that left a man dead. (Ruben R. Ramirez / El Paso Times)

A mentally disabled man was struck and killed by a vehicle Friday morning as he and two others were picking up litter from a roadway near Clint, El Paso County Sheriff's deputies said.
The victim, who was publicly identified only as a man in his 30s, died after he was hit on Gateway West about a mile west of the Clint exit off Interstate 10. Sheriff's spokeswoman Deputy Angelica Becerra said the man was with his supervisor and two co-workers when he was struck. Investigators were unable to get a description of the vehicle, which sped off after striking the man. Becerra said investigators believe the vehicle sustained front end damage. "We're still interviewing the witnesses," Becerra said Friday. "We don't know what he was doing

Reporter Adriana M. Chávez

(on the roadway) when he was struck."
Becerra said the man was an employee of XCeed Resources, a nonprofit organization formally known as Border TM that employs people with mental disabilities. A spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Transportation said XCeed's employees had been doing contract work for TxDOT at the time of the accident. Graciela Arreola, the human resources manager for XCeed, said the man had been employed there since at least 2001. "Everybody is reeling," Arreola said. "It's devastating." Arreola said the man's supervisor was emotionally "totally broken" after the accident, while his two co-workers have been in shock and unable to speak about it.