The news about 22 year old Angel’s pitcher, Nick Adenhart, shook the baseball world Thursday. We tend to put our athletes, movie stars and other celebrities up on a pedestal. It’s almost as if we value their lives against a different metric than our own. That’s exactly why the news focused around Adenhart was so surreal. After all, we just watched him pitch last night, looking like the epitome of virility.
But, tragically there were two other young lives lost early Thursday morning in Fullerton, California. Courtney Frances Stewart, who was only 20 years old, and my good friend Henry Pearson, 25, were also victims of this senseless and detestable crime.
Andrew Thomas Gallo, 22, of Riverside, was driving under the influence, something he had once before been arrested for. Kevin Hamilton, a lieutenant with the Fullerton Police Department, identified Gallo as the driver of the minivan that blazed through a red light prior to broad-siding the Mitsubishi Eclipse that was driven by Stewart, and carrying Adenhart, Hank, and Jon Wilhite, the only survivor.
Hank, who was celebrating his friend’s fourth big league start, was an aspiring sports agent. In fact he had already gained a few clients while he was attending Western State University College of Law. He was set to graduate next year
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