ROSSFORD, Ohio — At Friday night's Rossford Varsity Boy's Basketball against Genoa, all those in attendance stood for a moment of silence to honor a former Rossford High School student.
Ace Cuellar, 17, was studying at Penta Career Center but had been a Rossford student since he was in kindergarten.
Thursday night, the Ohio State Patrol said Ace was killed in a single-vehicle crash at the intersection of Dorr and North Crissey Road. Two other teenagers were seriously injured.
Ace's friend Emerson Alstad, a cheerleader at Rossford, took to social media asking everyone at Friday's game to wear black and red in his honor.
"We chose red and black for Ace because those were his two favorite colors," Alstad said. "Even his Jeep had black and red accents on the outside, so we decided in honor of him, red and black were the best colors to choose."
The squad decorated bleachers with red and black balloons, and red and black garlands, and also wore red and black in support.
"Ace was one of the best people I knew," Alstad said. "He was very kind, very caring."
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