Early morning crash leaves two men dead

ANAHEIM Two Anaheim men were killed and two others were critically injured Thursday morning when the stolen truck they were riding in careened off the road and crashed into a bus stop and two telephone poles on State College Boulevard. Killed were 1990 Katella High School graduate Emilio Sandoval and the driver of the truck, 21-year-old Raul Rodriguez. John Bowers, 19, also a Katella graduate, is in critical condition at UCI Medical Center in Orange along with another classmate who has not been identified. Another passenger, Marco Gonzalez, 17, was treated and released from Western Medical Center in Anaheim Thursday. The friends were driving south on State College Boulevard at about 4 a.m. Wednesday when the truck apparently hit a curb, sending it reeling into a covered bus stop and two telephone poles. Three of the passengers where thrown from the vehicle. Police say Rodriguez was exceeding the speed limit when the accident occurred. Police had few details about the accident, except that the truck parently stolen from Garden Grove sometime after midnight. Neither did police have any details about Rodriguez or Gonzalez. Sandoval, Bowers and the other unidentified passenger, however, were best friends. Bowers graduated from Emilio Sandoval Killed in car crash Katella High School this past spring. The other passenger graduated with Sandoval in 1990. "They were all very good friends," said Sandoval's 22-year-old brother Vincente. "Three best friends. " All three played basketball for Katella. Sandoval also wrestled and played junior varsity football. "He just got a new girlfriend and he was saving up for a new car," said Sandoval's sister, Luisa. "He was just starting his life." Sandoval's girlfriend, Noemie Bolicarbio, said he was also looking forward to his second year at Cal State Fullerton. "He really had plans," Bolicarbio said. "He wanted his parents to be proud of him. He loved his life and he wanted to settle down someday.