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Realistic Drama Drives Home Sobering Message
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Reunited after the Friday morning funeral service, EHS student Cameron Huff and mom Sonya who helped coordinate this years program have no words, just tears and an embrace as they let out a deep breath, having just gone through the Every 15 Minutes experience. Marg Jackson/The Times
His emotions, he said, were doing ‘backflips’ as he listened to the chaos going on around him. Escalon High School senior Wyatt Cockrell, one of two students who ‘died’ as the result of an alcohol-related crash staged Thursday for the Every 15 Minutes program for Escalon and Vista high schools, said it was a surreal experience that felt all too real. He was the passenger in a vehicle that overturned along Escalon-Bellota Road, driven by ‘drunk’ driver and classmate Michael Medina.