2 high school and their basketball coaches under 8, who were killed in fiery, frontal crash

Greeley, Kan. (AP)-Zwei vehicles collided head-on and broke up on a two-lane motorway in the rural east of Kansas in flames and killed eight people, including two students, a former teacher officer and a school worker from Oklahoma, the authorities announced on Monday.

The crash occurred on Sunday at 5:45 p.m. in the USA 169 outside the small town of Greeley, about 97 kilometers southwest of Kansas City, Missouri, said the Kansas Highway Patrol. One person escaped from a destroyed vehicle and was taken to the hospital.

Three of the people killed were connected to Tulsa Public Schools, the school district confirmed on Monday. The student of Booker T. Washington High School, Donald “DJ” vice, died together with the former coach of Carver Middle School and the teacher Wayne Walls and Ja'mon Gilstrap, member of the transport team of Tulsa Public Schools.

Kyrin Schumpert, a student of the 9th grade of the Union High School Freshman Academy in Tulsa, also died, according to a spokesman for the Union Public Schools.

“I am broken with a broken heart for those who have lost relatives and have undertaken to appreciate the immense collective effects of each of these people in Tulsa and in the life of our young people,” said Dr. Ebony Johnson, superintendent of the Tulsa public schools, in a statement.

Ron Horton, a teacher at Booker T. Washington, said in a video by Tulsa Public Schools that he saw and gone many children in his 17 -year class and that DJ vice was “something special”. He said vice was a typical student athlete who worked as hard on academics in the academic basketball season as at Sport.

“He was after his friendliness and just as he felt. “Nobody had a beef with this guy. He was just a good guy.”

Horton said that trucks were one of only two newcomers who made the Uni -Basketball team, and that trucks worked hard to keep up with them.

“It's just a shock that he is gone,” said Horton.

John Federline, superintendent of the Union Public Schools, said in a statement that the district had activated a crisis reaction team and that consultants, school psychologists and support employees offer everyone who may need support.

The crash closed a section of the highway for four hours, and Jodi Clary, Trooper from Kansas Highway Patrol, said that the authorities were still working on the accident site on Monday evening. The cause of the crash remained.

“Both cars are burned,” said Clary.

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