Family urges safety measures after Lubbock teen’s death at ‘Hell’s Gates’

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LUBBOCK, Texas— On October 28, seventeen-year-old Hunter Wood was at a popular destination in Lubbock, known as “Hell’s Gates” to many residents, playing with his brother and his brother’s girlfriend on the train trestle when the unthinkable happened.

“Eventually, we ended up circling back to the beginning of the trail, and we were faced with the option of going back home or, you know, going on the railroad like every other person does, and we went to the railroad,” Levi Wood, brother of Hunter Wood, said…

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