SAN ANTONIO – One person died and four others were injured after a crash near Olmos Park early Monday morning.
The Bexar County Medical Examiner's Office identified the victim as 18-year-old Corey Burris Byrnes.
SAPD investigators believe the driver was speeding west on East Olmos Drive and lost control coming off of a curve at around 12:45 a.m.
The car then jumped the curb and struck a lightpole before slamming into a concrete bridge pillar that supports Highway 281, San Antonio police said.
Byrnes was one of the backseat passengers. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
Four other people including the driver were taken to University Hospital.
Police at the scene said alcohol did not appear to be a factor. The crash remains under investigation.
A spokesperson for Trinity University confirmed Byrnes and the other four students were all first-year students. The spokesperson also said two of the students, a male and female, remained in critical condition while two other female students were considered stable.
Many students at Trinity University learned of the news through an email the school put out Monday morning.
"I saw the email, and my mood ... it's just sad. There are no other words to describe it really," said Kimberly Polasek.
Stephen Chang knew Byrnes through class.
"He came from Colorado also. He went to a school nearby mine. That's where I'm from," said Chang. "He was in the hardest class I'm in now. It's an upper-level physics course. He was a freshman, and I mean a really, really bright kid."
"It's just really surprising. I know one of them. He was in my class last semester," said Cameron Hayes, who knew one of the surviving students. "It's tough, but I think we're all behind all of them, and we'll get through it."