2 Tabor College football players killed in Kansas crash

HILLSBORO, Kan. (AP) — Two Tabor College football players from California have died in a crash near Hillsboro in central Kansas, authorities said.

The single-vehicle crash happened just before 4 a.m. Sunday on a rural road south of Hillsboro, the Kansas Highway Patrol said.

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.

Castillo, a senior, was a linebacker who previously attended Orange Coast College, and Aviles, a junior, was a running back who transferred from Allan Hancock College. Medina, a freshman fullback, played for Arlington High School in Riverside.

The Kansas Highway Patrol said Medina was driving when the vehicle went off an embankment at a county road and rolled.

Tabor is a private Christian university in Hillsboro, about 60 miles (96.56 kilometers) north of Wichita.