The noise and bustle that usually fill the halls of Conrad Ball Middle School were gone Monday as students mourned two classmates, a brother and sister who died in a weekend car wreck on Interstate 25.
“The atmosphere was very subdued this morning,” said Wes Fothergill, a spokesman for the Loveland school. “Middle schools are generally pretty loud. It was not that way this morning.”
Damien Noyes, 14, and his sister, Angel, 13, were killed early Saturday when the Ford Escort they were riding in was rear-ended by a Chevrolet Blazer near 104th Avenue.
The teens were heading home to Loveland from a Denver Nuggets game with their parents, Phillip Chavez and Reyna Padilla-Chavez.
Chavez had been driving, and Padilla-Chavez said she wanted to drive, so he parked on the side of the highway, Chavez told The Denver Post. The car was hit while it was on the side of the road.
The driver of the Blazer, Glenn Ryburn, 62, of Northglenn, is at Denver Health Medical Center in serious condition, a hospital spokeswoman said.
The school announced the children’s deaths Monday morning, and then students and staff held a moment of silence.
“Pretty much the focus has been on the relationships they had with other students and staff,” Fothergill said.
Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com
