Memorial services are planned for two Shawnee Mission South High School students who were killed in a car crash last week.
On Saturday, two teenagers, Itzel Guerra, 18, a senior, and Jose Placensia Castañeda, 17, a junior, were killed in a head-on collision on Metcalf Avenue near Johnson Drive (the boundary between Mission and northern Overland Park).
Since then, two fundraisers have been gathering money for their families. As of Friday morning, a GoFundMe to cover funeral costs for Placensia Castañeda is close to reaching its goal of $18,000, and a Spotfund fundraiser for Guerra is also close to meeting its benchmark of $13,000…