Gereey, about. – Two vehicles collided in front and broke into a flame on a two -lane road in eastern rural Kansas, killing eight people, including two high school students, a former teacher and an employee of the Oklahoma school, the authorities said on Monday.
The accident occurred around 5:45 pm on Sunday in US 169 outside the small town of Greley, about 60 miles (97 kilometers) southwest of Kansas City, Missouri, said the Kansas road patrol. A person escaped from a shattered vehicle and was hospitalized.
Three of the murdered were connected to the public schools of Tulsa, confirmed the school district on Monday. Booker student T. Washington High School Donald “DJ” Laster died in the accident, along with the former coach of the high school and teacher Wayne Walls and Ja’mon Gilstrap, member of the Transport team of the Public Schools of Tulsa.
Kyrin Schumpert, a ninth grade student from the Freshman Academy of the Union High School in Tulsa, also died in the accident, according to a spokesman for the Union of Public Schools.
“I am disconsolate by those who lost loved ones and committed myself to honor the immense collective impact that each of these people had in Tulsa and in the life of our young people,” said Dr. Ebony Johnson, superintendent of the public schools of Tulsa, in a statement.
Ron Horton, a Booker T. Washington teacher, said in a video sent by Tulsa public schools that has seen many children come and come in their 17 years of teaching and that DJ Laster was “something special.” He said Lostr was an athlete student par excellence who worked as hard in the academic as he did in sport during the busy university basketball season.
“He stood out for his kindness and the way he made the children feel comfortable. They simply felt so comfortable with DJ. He was always smiling,” said Horton. “No one had a beef with that guy. It was just a good guy.”
Horton said that Lastr was one of the only two first year students to make the university basketball team and that Lastr worked hard to keep up.
“It’s just a shock, it’s gone,” Horton said.
The Superintendent of the Public Schools of the Union, John Federline, said in a statement that the district has activated a crisis response team and is offering counselors, school psychologists and support personnel for anyone who needs support.
The accident closed a section of the road for four hours, and the soldier of the Kansas road patrol, Jodi Clary, said the authorities were still working at the scene of the accident Monday night. The cause of the accident remained under investigation.
“Both cars burned,” said Clary.
