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Wheaton College freshman volunteering at a track meet killed in hammer-throw accident

By Cindy Boren April 23 at 5:05 PM

A Wheaton College student who had hoped to become a minister was killed Saturday when he was accidentally struck by a hammer during a hammer-throw competition at a track meet in suburban Chicago.

Ethan Roser, a 19-year-old freshman from the Cincinnati area, was volunteering at the Wheaton, Ill., meet when he was struck at about 4:15 p.m. Central time. Wheaton College Public Safety and paramedics were on the scene, the Chicago Tribune reported, and Roser was pronounced dead at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove. An autopsy is planned for Monday.

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Family recalls Wheaton College student who died in track meet accident
Chicago Tribune
Grace Wong and Joe Mahr
April 23, 2017

A Wheaton College student was killed Saturday after being accidentally hit by a hammer during a hammer throw event at a track and field competition. Ethan Roser, 19, a freshman from the Cincinnati area studying to be a minister, was volunteering at the Wheaton College track and field competition when he was struck at about 4:15 p.m. He had just transferred to the school in January.

Wheaton College Public Safety and paramedics were on the scene, and Roser was taken to Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, where he was pronounced dead.

Authorities did not immediately release more information on the incident. The DuPage County coroner's office said Sunday that it planned to perform an autopsy Monday. Roser's family told the Tribune on Sunday morning that they were en route to Chicago and hoped to learn more about what happened.

"We know he's with Jesus," said his father, the Rev. Mark Roser. "And the fact that he's in paradise is a great source of comfort to us."

Ethan Roser, the son of Christian missionaries, spent his early years in Africa. His father recalled that Ethan, the youngest of four, had wisdom beyond his age and, as a young child, said things that left adults spellbound. That included when he was 6, as the family prepared to move from Zimbabwe to the United States. His father tried to reassure a tearful son that things would be OK in a land where his son had never lived.

"I said, 'It's the people that make the place,'" his father recalled. "And he looked at me and said, 'But the place stays in your heart forever.'"  ... Rest of story
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