A Murray State University student died in a car accident over the weekend.
Interim President Bob Jackson said in a campus email on Monday that Joseph Pennington was a freshman from Hodgenville, Kentucky. He was killed Friday afternoon in Grayson County while heading home for the holiday weekend.
Pennington was a biology/pre-med major and wanted to become a surgeon, according to the university.
Multiple news outlets report a release from the Grayson County Police said 18-year-old Pennington died Saturday in a hospital from injuries sustained in a two-vehicle crash. Pennington collided with a pickup truck and was ejected from the vehicle. The other driver, 64-year-old Milton Cummings of Louisville received serious, but non-life threatening injuries.
A 'Celebration of Life' for Pennington is September 7 in Elizabethtown.
