Lenin Homer Silva crossed the stage at Hillsdale High School’s graduation on Thursday, May 28, beaming in a way his mother Sue Homer described as looking “like he made it.”
Just two days later, he was gone.
Silva was killed in the early hours of May 30 when the driver of the grey Chevrolet Camaro he was riding in made an illegal lane change on Interstate 80 near SoMa, struck a Recology truck, hit the sand barrels at the top of the Seventh Street off-ramp, and launched over the bridge railing, falling 25 feet into the city’s police department’s impound lot…