San Jose State postpones game after running back from L.A. is struck, killed by bus
Updated 12:46 am CDT, Saturday, April 26, 2019
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San Jose State football linebacker David Buitron (12) breaks through the line as his teammate, quarterback Brandon Silvers (2) falls on him during a drill on Oct. 7, 2017, at Spartan Stadium in San Jose, California. less
San Jose State football linebacker David Buitron (12) breaks through the line as his teammate, quarterback Brandon Silvers (2) falls on him during a drill on Oct. 7, 2017, at Spartan Stadium in San Jose, California. less
San Jose State football linebacker David Buitron (12) breaks through the line as his teammate, quarterback Brandon Silvers (2) falls on him during a drill on Oct. 7,… more
SAN JOSE, Calif. – A day after running back Kian Johnson was hurt, he was still running.
Johnson, a junior who was the first returning starter from injured linebacker Max Shaw, was hurt on a third-quarter fourth down at Stanford. He was declared dead after the bus that hit him hit a utility pole and became stuck, according to San Jose police Sgt. Ryan Nelsen.
Johnson, a senior from East San Jose, was on his way to a game on Saturday at Hawaii. He was in the back seat of the bus, and the last person to see him before the bus was hit was Buitron, a sophomore who was sitting on the bus.
Johnson, 22, is from San Jose, where he is a teammate of Buitron.
The bus driver told officers that he was trying to get away from Shaw and that Johnson made a gesture to the left of him, an indication to get off the bus, but that it ended up hitting Buitron and knocking him into the bus, Nelsen said.
“It was a very bizarre and tragic accident,” said David Stoner, the San Jose State athletic department spokesman. “The bus driver was trying to get off because he, his teammate, and a co-worker saw Kian fall and was trying to save the
