HOLLAND, Mich. (WOOD) — Officers consider that the dying of a Hope Faculty scholar who was hit and killed by a prepare on Saturday was unintended.
On Saturday round 6:20 p.m., officers and firefighters with the Holland Division of Public Security have been despatched to tenth Road close to Lincoln Avenue after receiving reviews that an individual had been hit by a prepare.
They discovered 20-year-old Jennifer Kasunick unconscious and never respiratory. She was taken to the hospital the place she died, HDPS stated.
Alcohol and medicines are usually not believed to be elements within the crash.
Hope scholar hit, killed by prepare remembered for ‘joyful spirit’
On Sunday, Hope Faculty President Matt Scogin posted on social media asserting her dying.
“Almost everyone on campus knew Jennifer. And to know her was to love her. Her joyful spirit was a constant source of warmth and light — especially in Phelps Hall, where she served as an RA alongside her service dog Rowdy, who survived,” the publish stated partly.
Hope Faculty college students and employees collect on Monday, Jan. 13, 2025, following the dying of Jennifer Kasunick. (Courtesy Hope Faculty)
An undated courtesy photograph of Jennifer Kasunick. (Courtesy Hope Faculty)
On Monday, Dean of College students Becky Starkenburg stated the campus neighborhood was counting on its “deep Christian faith” in its grief.
“We have 3,000 students. Most of them are 18 to 22 years old. And so to lose one of our own is really difficult and hard,” Starkenburg stated. “We’ve been gathering together as a community. We have a deep Christian faith here at Hope College and so we’ve been gathering together and leaning into that together and really it’s been a wonderful time of coming together, but we are certainly grieving.”
Campus assist assets have been listed within the faculty president’s publish:
Counseling and Psychological Companies (CAPS): 616.395.7945
Residential Life/Dean of College students: 616.395.7800
Campus Ministries: van Andel Huys der Hope, 616.395.7145
