Reflecting on a year of loss, grit, and pulling together
The pivotal email from President L. Rafael Reif arrived in the inboxes of the MIT community on March 10, 2020. After weeks of monitoring the emerging...
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The pivotal email from President L. Rafael Reif arrived in the inboxes of the MIT community on March 10, 2020. After weeks of monitoring the emerging...
Carlos Sotelo was killed Friday night at around 11:30 p.m. while on his skateboard. Police say he was going down a steep hill on Voight Drive when he crashed and was run over by a car. His brother Miguel said it was "the worst moment of my life. I was screaming. I was just on the floor in a ball." Focusing on all the brightness of her son's life, Mabel Sotelo remembers her son for his generosity and kindness. The family has a memorial in their living room full of photos of their most joyous moments with Carlos. “This is when he graduated and I was just playing with him and I put his robe on...
SAN DIEGO — Authorities publicly identified a UC San Diego student who was fatally struck by a vehicle on campus after he fell from his skateboard. Carlos Rey Sotelo, 19, of Lake Elsinore in Riverside County, was riding a skateboard down a steep hill on Voigt Drive west of Engineer Lane when he fell to the ground about 11:35 p.m. Saturday, according to San Diego police and the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office. A 20-year-old man driving west in a Nissan Maxima ran over Sotelo while he was still lying in the middle of the roadway, police said. The victim died at the scene.
Carlos Sotelo. Courtesy: GoFundMe Carlos Rey Sotelo, 19, of Lake Elsinore in Riverside County, was riding a skateboard down a steep hill on Voigt Drive west of Engineer Lane when he fell to the ground about 11:35 p.m. Saturday, according to San Diego police and the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office. A 20-year-old man driving westbound in a Nissan Maxima ran over Sotelo while he was still lying in the middle of the roadway, police said. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. Sotelo was a first-year electrical engineering student who lived in the Warren College dorms, UCSD Vice...