Two Prairie View A&M University students, Antwan McKinney from Miami, Fla., and Lamond Foster from Wichita Falls, Texas, were killed in an automobile accident on Highway 290 in the early hours of Monday, Feb. 6. McKinney, 25, a graduate student and assistant track coach, and Foster, 22, a senior political science major, also known as Trinidad to fellow students, were traveling in a Chevrolet Impala which was involoved in a head-on collision with a Dodge vehicle driven by an unidentified woman. The woman, the only occupant of the other vehicle, also died in the accident.
The cause of the accident is being investigated.
Meanwhile, the university is scheduled to hold a memorial service in honor of McKinney and Foster on Thursday, Feb. 9, at 11:00 am in the Memorial Student Center Auditorium.