Sladen Mohl of Girdwood, a former all-conference player for South High in his first season with a junior college baseball team, was killed Thursday night in Torrance, California.
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Mohl, 19, was standing on an island separating lanes near an intersection when a 16-year-old girl driving a Toyota Highlander ran a red light and struck him, according to a report from the Torrance Police Department.
The report said police suspect the driver, who hit two vehicles after hitting Mohl, was driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Mohl sustained major injuries and was treated by emergency personnel but died at the scene, police said.
Mohl was a freshman catcher at El Camino College in Torrance. The school canceled a Friday baseball game and is scheduled to hold a memorial at the school baseball field Monday, according to a Twitter post by the team.
We lost a brother, teammate and member of our family way too soon. He was everything you would want a young man to be. Monday April 22nd we will hold a memorial service for @SladenMohl at Warrior field @ 5:00. #18alwaysawarrior
— ECCbaseball (@elcobaseball) April 20, 2019
Donations can be made here:https://t.co/rNCuOH3ZDS pic.twitter.com/UXdiceTAH7
“Everybody loved him,” Nate Fernely, the El Camino coach said in a report by KNBC in Los Angeles. “You can not look at him and not smile.”
Mohl was a key member of South High’s 2017 undefeated baseball team. That season he was a first-team all-Cook Inlet Conference pick and the winner of the CIC’s Big Stick award for hitting.
“I just saw him yesterday and today he’s gone,” Zach Findlay, Mohl’s teammate at El Camino College, told KNBC.
Gloomy skies at the intersection of West Sepulveda and Hawthorne Boulevards where 19-year-old @elcaminocollege baseball player Sladen Mohl was killed Thursday, April 18, by a suspected-DUI driver. A vigil has been started for Mohl. #eccunion pic.twitter.com/EVqS6YdyFm
— Fernando Haro (@ECCUnionHaro) April 20, 2019