A 13-Year-Old Boy Was Driving The Pickup Truck That Crashed Into A College Golf Team’s Van

Thousands more will have suffered life-altering injuries, including severe burns, amputations, and so forth, which we do not want to minimize.

Landsberg said investigators believe that a number of passengers in the van were not wearing seatbelts. The passenger was ejected from the vehicle.

The mother of Laci Stone, one of the golfers who was killed, said in a Facebook post that their family will never be the same as they struggled to understand what happened.

She has been an absolute ray of sunshine during this short time on earth.

Stone said that they got matching tattoos before she took her daughter to school.

I went through with it despite being a baby. Stone said that her daughter was so strong that she didn't even move.

According to her university bio, Laci Stone wanted to own her own business, while Karisa Raines wanted to become a forensic scientist. Raines said in her bio that her first hole-in-one was her favorite sports memory.

Rick Long, the family pastor at Grace Church in Arvada, Colorado, told the Associated Press that 22-year-old Jackson Zinn loved the smell of the golf course and enjoyed playing in the church's annual golf tournament to raise money for Indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon.

He said that it was the only place he could play his game and not feel the pressure of having to perform because he was doing it for a bigger mission.

He said in his bio that he wanted to join the US Secret Service or play golf professionally. The Mexican Golf Federation offered its sympathies to the 19-year-old's family and friends.

The head of the Escola Secund told the AP that he came to the US from Portugal's southern coast.

Any school would be happy to have had him as a student.

The coach of the students golf team, Tyler James, was a former player at both Howard Payne University in Texas and the University of Kansas, where he also spent time as a coach. James was an assistant coach for the men's and women's golf teams at East Texas Baptist University before joining the USW staff.

Ryan Erwin, vice president of student engagement and athletics at the school, told CBS 19 that Tyler ran with it and took advantage of his opportunities.