HILLSBORO, Kan. (AP) — Officials at a private Christian college in Kansas are vowing not to forget two football players from California who were killed in a crash that also left a third player badly injured.
Tabor College’s head football coach, Mike Gardner, described 22-year-old Christopher Castillo, a senior from San Juan Capistrano, Califoria and 23-year-old Johnethon Aviles, a junior from Paso Robles, California as “two of the most unselfish players that I’ve had ever.”
He spoke Friday, five days after the two were found dead at the scene of an early-morning crash on a rural road south of Hillsboro, where Tabor is located. College president David Janzen says a third Tabor football player, Jonathan Medina, remains hospitalized with a serious back injury.
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The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2001 Toyota 4-Runner driven by Jonathan Medina, 19, Lyons, was northbound on Indigo Road at 130th.
At the county correction line, the Toyota traveled off the embankment and rolled.
Two passengers, also member of of the Tabor College Football team identified as 22-year-old Christopher Castillo, a senior from San Juan Capistrano, Califoria and 23-year-old Johnethon Aviles, a junior from Paso Robles, California were pronounced dead at the scene. They were tranported to Yazel-Megli Funeral Home.
EMS transported Medina to Wesley Medical Center. All three were not wearing seat belts, according to the KHP.