COLIN PERRY
Editor in Chief
A tragic car accident sent shockwaves across Western New York last week, as two young students died in Wheatfield, New York. Melanie Aronow’s life was cut short on Aug. 20, mere days before she was supposed to begin her college career at Fredonia.
As reported by The Buffalo News, Aronow and her friend Quincy Harper, both 18, were walking along Shawnee Road early on Saturday the 20th with two other friends on their way to a nearby house party. But the road was lined on both sides by parked cars, and as the group walked along the fog line, three of them were struck by a car. Aronow and Harper both died at the scene.
Aronow, daughter of Glenn Aronow and Diane Misch, was a recent graduate of Lockport High School. She was described by friends as “a fun, bubbly young woman who loved parties and people,” according to The Buffalo News.
Rumors about Aronow’s death circulated throughout the first days of classes before President Virginia Horvath addressed the incident in an email to the campus on Wednesday, Aug. 24.
“Members of our campus community join the family and friends of this Lockport High School graduate in the sense of loss that this next chapter never started,” Horvath wrote.