A 16-year-old boy was killed in a collision Thursday night in Newhall, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s office.
The Medical Examiner identified the boy as Alberto Castillo, of Newhall.
Castillo was skateboarding on the eastbound lanes when a pickup truck collided with him while traveling on the same lanes, according to Sgt. Mark Perkins with the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station.
The driver of the pickup truck did not see Castillo, and it was too late by the time they noticed he was there, Perkins said.
Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel were dispatched to a traffic collision on the 23500 block of West Lyons Avenue in Newhall at 11:19 p.m. on Thursday, according to Geovanni Sanchez, spokesman for the Fire Department.
Firefighters arrived on the scene at 11:24 p.m., Sanchez said.
There were no confirmed patients or transports and firefighters finished the call at 11:48 p.m., according to Sanchez.
“He was a very shy kid, very humble. He wore his heart on his sleeve,” Dora Alvarez, Castillo’s aunt, said in a phone interview on Friday.
Castillo was one of 52 grandchildren, loved skateboarding and recently got into church, Alvarez said.
“I don’t know what to say, I’m kind of speechless. I think all of us are kind of, I have no words … all I can remember is him smiling,” Alvarez said.
At the crash site, Castillo’s family gathered in his memory Friday afternoon and put out balloons, candles and flowers to commemorate him.
To support Alberto Castillo’s family, a GoFundMe page has been established at tinyurl.com/33kpur57.
