The Arizona Department of Transportation says it does not plan to install cameras in the wake of an attack at a rest stop that left a truck driver with severe brain injuries. 

The truck driver was attacked at a Cochise County, Arizona  rest area on February 15th just after 10 p.m. and was transported to a hospital with critical injuries. As of March 14th, his condition has still not improved. 

“I’d say it’s as severe as you can get as far as brain injuries,” Lead trauma surgeon Francis Ali-Osman said of the truck driver’s condition. The truck driver has only been identified as ‘Jack.’

Now, with very few answers, investigators and Jack’s wife Jennifer say they want cameras installed at state rest areas to prevent further unexplained crime at these stops. 

“If you had camera it would be easy to find the guy and the people know ‘oh he have camera and don’t do something,” Jennifer said to News4Tucson.

 “Having a video camera, it would make our job easy, could bring justice to a victim,” said Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels. Adding that the caretakers are “not there to secure, they are there to clean.”

Dannels says he’d rather see the rest area shut down if the state can’t commit to making the stop safer. 

“You’ve got to provide some prevention in place if you’re going to have a public area where people convene, especially late at night, you need to have some prevention in place,” he said.