As graduation season comes to a close, one North Texas family said a recently received degree is bittersweet.
He was three years into marriage after a decade together and Jason would soon have his degree and a new career.
According to a TXDOT crash report, Jason was on a sidewalk along Spring Valley Road, near the corner of Montfort Drive, when the driver of a red Volkswagon Jetta hopped a curb, hit him and fled.“I’d say some days are better than others,” said Jason’s sister Mia Luna.That day, he’d celebrated with Tiffany and family as they watched the solar eclipse, texting each other about their experiences.
“He struggled a lot whenever he was younger in high school and afterward. He had paranoid schizophrenia,” she said. “It took him awhile, but he kept on fighting and fighting and fighting. He’s like, I’ll just take one class here. I’ll take another class there. It never stopped him.”So it was nothing short of bittersweet when, a few weeks after his death, SMU’s Lyle School of Engineering posthumously awarded Jason his degree last month.
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