CONIFER, Colo. — Three teenagers from a Kansas military school were killed and another was injured when their pickup crashed in the foothills outside Denver.
Eighteen-year-old Jake Whitting, of Glen Head, New York; 19-year-old John Yoder, of Denver; and 16-year-old Akinwumi “AJ” Ricketts, of Nigeria, died after Colorado State Patrol investigators say Whitting lost control, went off the road and crashed into a creek south of Conifer on Tuesday.
A fourth cadet, 17-year-old Marshall Otter, of Ulysses, Kansas, was hospitalized with serious ...