Kephas Pope, 18, died Thursday after being hit by a driver on El Camino Real; he was part of a multi-generation Bronco family, college says.
SANTA CLARA — A campus is in mourning after an 18-year-old Santa Clara University student was killed in a car collision Thursday in front of the school grounds, according to authorities and college officials.
Responding police officers and firefighters found Pope seriously injured. He was taken to a hospital where he died, police said. On Thursday afternoon, SCU President Julie Sullivan sent out a campus email confirming Pope’s death and describing him as a sophomore majoring in neuroscience and biochemistry. He was “a straight-A student who loved working in the organic chemistry lab,” Sullivan wrote.
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