An emergency room nurse from Temecula and a U.S. Marine veteran were killed when they were struck by a car on the 15 Freeway in San Diego County last week after they stopped to help the victims of a crash.
It happened at around 4 a.m. on June 11, as Nereida “Nery” Benitez and Gary “Chad” Tillman were driving northbound near SR-76.
Benitez, on her way home from an emergency room shift at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego, and Tillman, making a delivery for the sand and gravel company he worked for, both stopped upon seeing the aftermath of the crash…