A GoFundMe campaign established in honor of Josiah Patrick Santos, a University of Arizona student, has raised more than $32,000 as mourning families call for improvements in pedestrian safety measures following a heartbreaking crash near the Tucson campus that killed three young people.
On the evening of October 30, 2025, Santos, 22, and his girlfriend Sophia Akimi Troetel, 21, were struck and killed by a speeding vehicle while crossing a marked crosswalk at North Euclid Avenue and East Second Street, an area used extensively by students and residents.
Louis John Artal charged in fatal Porsche Boxster hit-and-run deaths of University of Arizona students Sophia Akimi Troetel, Josiah Patrick Santos, and Rosaura Castillo Mendozahttps://t.co/uoFFGuJik5
— Kofi Kesia (@KKesia25950) November 2, 2025
A third pedestrian, Katya Castillo-Mendoza was seriously injured and removed from life support the next day. In the days after the tragedy, a GoFundMe campaign established by Santos’s family received attention and support from the local community and beyond…