2 Tabor College football players killed in Kansas crash

Published February 28, 2022 1:10 PM

HILLSBORO, Kan. (AP) — Authorities in central Kansas say two Tabor College football players from California died in a crash near Hillsboro. The Kansas Highway Patrol said the single-vehicle crash happened just before 4 a.m. Sunday on a rural road south of Hillsboro. First responders found Johnethon Aviles, of Paso Robles, California, and Christopher Castillo of Tustin, California, dead at the scene. A third Tabor football player, Jonathan Medina, was taken to a Wichita hospital with serious injuries. The Kansas Highway Patrol said Medina was driving a vehicle that went off an embankment and rolled.

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