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CBS News
27-05-2025
- General
- CBS News
Person dies in traffic collision just outside of South Los Angeles middle school
A person died Tuesday morning after a collision just outside of a middle school in South Los Angeles, authorities confirmed. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, two vehicles collided in the area of Vernon and McKinley avenues at about 7:06 a.m. The crash took place in an area adjacent to George Washington Carver Middle School, which starts instruction at 8 a.m. The LAPD said one person was pronounced dead at the scene, although they were not identified as of 8 a.m. It's not clear if any other injuries were sustained. A man died Tuesday morning after a traffic collision just outside of George Washington Carver Middle School in South Los Angeles. Images captured by SkyCAL at the scene showed a silver sedan with severe damage to the driver's side. A white tent was put up on the sidewalk, indicating that a body was underneath. It's not yet clear how the crash occurred or if the deceased has any affiliation with Carver Middle School. Vernon was closed from Wadsworth Avenue to McKinley as authorities investigated. It's not yet clear when the closed portion of the road will reopen.
New York Post
07-05-2025
- Sport
- New York Post
Teen basketball players were among those who died in a Kansas highway crash that killed 8
GREELEY, Kan. — Two teenage basketball players, a coach and a trainer from the Tulsa, Oklahoma, area who were on their way back from a tournament were among eight people killed in a fiery head-on highway crash in eastern Kansas. Authorities said the other victims in Sunday's crash on a two-lane stretch of US 169 about 60 miles (97 kilometers) southwest of Kansas City, Missouri, included three members of a St. Louis-area family. The crash occurred when a southbound SUV driven by the trainer, carrying the teammates, collided with a northbound sedan with the St. Louis family as passengers, the Kansas Highway Patrol reported. 4 This image taken from video from May 5, 2025, shows charred earth at the site of a fatal vehicle collision in Franklin County, Kans. AP Advertisement A third teenager from the Tulsa area survived the crash and was hospitalized with what the Highway Patrol described as potentially a minor injury. The young basketball players who died were Donald 'DJ' Laster, 14, a student at Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa; and Kyrin Schumpert, a ninth-grader at the Union High School Freshman Academy in the Tulsa area, who also sometimes went by Kyrin Gilstrap, according to Union Public Schools. The boys were members of the Oklahoma Chaos youth basketball program, which called the crash 'an unimaginable tragedy' in a post on the social platform X. Advertisement 4 Kyrin Schumpert and Donald Laster both died in the car accident. Instagram/Oklahoma Chaos 'Please wrap their families and friends with love and support as they try to get through this very difficult time,' the post said. 'Our organization has taken a tremendous hit and we are deeply saddened.' Ron Horton, a teacher at Booker T. Washington, said in a video sent by Tulsa Public Schools that he has seen a lot of kids come and go in his 17 years of teaching and that DJ Laster was 'something special.' 4 The boys were members of the Oklahoma Chaos youth basketball program. Instagram/Oklahoma Chaos Advertisement He said Laster was a quintessential student-athlete who worked as hard at academics as he did at sport during the busy varsity basketball season. He said Laster was among only two freshmen to make the school's varsity team and stood out for how he put others at ease. 'It's just a shock, it is, that he's gone,' Horton said. Two adults traveling with them also died — Wayne Walls, of Talala, Oklahoma, 41, a former teacher and coach at Carver Middle School in Tulsa — and Ja'mon Gilstrap, a trainer and driver with the Tulsa Public Schools' transportation team. The survivor was Braden Walls, 15, also of Talala, Oklahoma. Gilstrap was driving the SUV at the time of the accident. 4 Two adults traveling with them also died — Wayne Walls, a former teacher and coach at Carver Middle School in Tulsa — and Ja'mon Gilstrap, a trainer and driver with the Tulsa Public Schools' transportation team. Facebook/Booker T. Washington High School Advertisement The other driver — Alexander Ernst, 37, of Ames, Iowa — also died, along with Madalyn Elliott, 33; John Elliott, 76, and Norleen Elliott, 69, all of Chesterfield, Missouri. The Kansas Highway Patrol said the crash occurred a few miles outside of Greeley, Kansas, a town of fewer than 300 people, at about 5:45 p.m. Sunday, as Gilstrap, the driver of the SUV, attempted to pass a slow-moving vehicle. He and the sedan driven by Ernst were headed toward each other in the northbound lane, and both drivers swerved to avoid a collision, but both went into the northbound shoulder of the highway. The crash caused a fire, and 'both cars burned up,' officials said.
