PARK CITY — The Summit County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday confirmed that a skier killed in an accident over the weekend is the son of television producer.
Charles “Charlie” Noxon, 20, of Los Angeles, died after police say he crashed into a sign.
”Our hearts are shattered. Our dear boy Charlie Noxon died on New Year’s Eve on a ski slope in Park City,” Noxon’s parents, Christopher Noxon and Jenji Kohan, said in a prepared statement. “There are no words. But words are what we’ve got right now, along with tears and hugs and massive quantities of baked goods and deli platters.”
Kohan is a television writer and producer and the creator of the shows “Orange Is the New Black” and “Weeds.” Christopher Noxon is a writer and freelance journalist.
“The cliches about moments like this are true, it turns out. The one about life forever changing in a split second, about the fact that we are all bound up in a web of love and loss, about the primacy of community in times of unfathomable tragedy,” Charlie Noxon’s parents stated.
Noxon was a junior at Columbia University studying philosophy, economics and Chinese, according to his parents.
“He loved Bob Dylan, George Saunders and Hayou Miyazaki. He was questioning, irreverent, curious and kind,” they said. “He was absolutely adored by his parents, Jenji Kohan and Christopher Noxon, and his siblings, Eliza and Oscar. Charlie had a beautiful life of study and argument and travel and food and razzing and adventure and sweetness and most of all love. We cannot conceive of life without him.”
Park City Mountain Resort said in a statement Wednesday that its ski patrol responded to a “serious incident” on an intermediate trail near Canyons Village about 2:30 p.m.
“Noxon reached a fork in the run he was on, and for an unknown reason crashed into the sign that directed skiers to take one run or the other,” according to the Summit County Sheriff’s Office. Noxon was wearing a helmet, deputies said. There were no witnesses to the crash.
The sheriff’s office says the family members Noxon was skiing with were farther down the hill, and he was found lying in the snow by other skiers.
Funeral services will be held Sunday at Temple Israel of Hollywood.