OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) A suburban Kansas City teenager who was struck by an out-of-control car as she was walking home from school has died from her injuries.
The Kansas City Star reports that 14-year-old Alexandra Rumple died Sunday. Overland Park police say she was struck Friday afternoon about a block away from Oxford Middle School, where she was an eighth-grader. Police say the driver also hit a traffic signal pole and a wooden fence.
Police havent released the drivers name. It isnt yet known what caused the car to leave the road.
Hundreds gathered Sunday at a vigil to remember Alex as an athletic, art-loving, straight-A student. Students talked about how she wanted everyone to feel included. Her principal encouraged her classmates to wear flannel today because it was Alexs favorite material.
