A Horrible Ending

Barely 4 months after the sequence premiered, Steven, 24, was on his bike heading house from work at a pizza store on Sept. 16, 1989, when a automotive turned in entrance of him. He wasn’t sporting a helmet and he was pronounced lifeless of a cranium fracture at a close-by hospital. (The opposite driver, Anthony Loera, really left the scene however finally turned himself in. He was sentenced to a few months in jail for felony hit-and-run.)

“I am very, very, very offended,” his spouse Jody, then 21, advised a reporter for Knight Ridder that night time. “I’ve by no means been this offended.” 

Although the prepared assumption was that Steven’s sadly brief life had been outlined by his troubles, Jody stated he’d been “a really joyful man” of late, and so they’d been residing “a standard life with two lovely children.”  

Greater than 450 individuals turned out for Steven’s funeral and Timothy White, the boy he saved, was a pallbearer.

But in one other perversely tragic coincidence, White additionally died younger, struggling a pulmonary embolism on April 1, 2010, when he was 35. He had been a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy for 5 years, in accordance with the Press Democrat, and was survived by his spouse and two youngsters.