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Two vehicles collided head-on and burst into flames connected a two-lane road successful agrarian eastbound Kansas, sidesplitting 8 people, including 2 precocious schoolhouse students, a erstwhile teacher-coach and a schoolhouse worker from Oklahoma, authorities said Monday.
The clang occurred astatine astir 5:45 p.m. Sunday connected U.S. 169 extracurricular of the tiny municipality of Greeley, astir 60 miles southwest of Kansas City, Missouri, the Kansas Highway Patrol said. One idiosyncratic escaped from a wrecked conveyance and was hospitalized.
Three of those killed were connected with Tulsa Public Schools, the schoolhouse territory confirmed Monday. Booker T. Washington High School pupil Donald "DJ" Laster died successful the crash, on with erstwhile Carver Middle School manager and teacher Wayne Walls and Ja'mon Gilstrap, a subordinate of Tulsa Public Schools' proscription team.
Laster, Gilstrap and Walls were portion of a competitory question hoops squad called the Oklahoma Chaos, KSHB reported.
Kyrin Schumpert, a 9th people pupil from Union High School Freshman Academy successful Tulsa, besides died successful the crash, according to a Union Public Schools spokesperson.
"I americium heartbroken for those who mislaid loved ones, and committed to honoring the immense corporate interaction each of these radical had successful Tulsa and successful the lives of our young people," Dr. Ebony Johnson, superintendent of Tulsa Public Schools, said successful a statement obtained by CBS affiliate KOTV. "I americium praying for their families and everyone involved, and anticipation others volition proceed to travel alongside our students, squad members, and families who are hurting."
Ron Horton, a teacher astatine Booker T. Washington, said successful a video sent by Tulsa Public Schools that helium has seen a batch of kids travel and spell successful his 17 years of teaching and that DJ Laster was "something special." He said Laster was a quintessential student-athlete who worked arsenic hard astatine academics arsenic helium did astatine athletics during the engaged varsity hoops season.
"He stood retired for his friendliness and conscionable the mode helium made kids consciousness astatine ease. They conscionable felt truthful comfy astir DJ. He was ever smiling," Horton said. "No 1 had a beef with that guy. He was conscionable a bully guy."
Horton said Laster was 1 of lone 2 freshmen to marque the varsity hoops squad and that Laster worked hard to support up.
"It's conscionable a shock, it is, that he's gone," Horton said.
Union Public Schools Superintendent John Federline said successful a connection that the territory has activated a situation effect squad and is offering counselors, schoolhouse psychologists, and enactment unit for anyone who whitethorn request the support.
The clang closed a conception of the road for 4 hours, and Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper Jodi Clary said authorities were inactive moving astatine the clang tract Monday evening. The origin of the clang remained nether investigation.
"Both cars burned up," Clary said.
The clang happened conscionable days aft a pickup motortruck and circuit van collision successful Idaho adjacent Yellowstone National Park killed 7 people and injured 8 others.
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