A 23-year-old sailor from Laguna Niguel died after being hit by a train he was attempting to board in a suburb outside Chicago, according to a news report.
Chase Church, a 2006 graduate of Aliso Niguel High School, was with a group of friends just south of the Highwood station when he was struck and killed by an express train they were all trying to board. He had graduated with honors from the Hospital Corps School at Naval Station Great Lakes earlier that day, and planned to continue his medical training as a surgical technician in San Antonio.
According to a relative, Church hoped to become an anesthesiologist, following in the footsteps of his great-grandfather, a World War I Navy veteran, and his grandfather, a World War II veteran, who both had private medical practices following their military service. Church had also just become engaged to his longtime girlfriend in December.
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