Central Texas school district shares name, photos of 5-year-old boy killed in bus crash

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The bus involved in the crash was carrying pre-K students returning from a trip to the Bastrop Zoo.

The boy's pre-K bilingual teacher shared her memories of him in a release from the district sent out Monday morning.On March 22, a bus carrying pre-K students from Tom Green Elementary School in Buda was struck by a cement truck on State Highway 21 in Bastrop County, causing the bus to roll over. The students were returning from a field trip to the Bastrop Zoo.

Now Hays CISD has identified that boy as 5-year-old Ulises Rodriguez Montoya. According to the district, he loved his family, dinosaurs, the color green and going to school."Ulises was a child who was filled with a lot of happiness and he often shared it with others," Naira"Dina" Solís Shears, Rodriguez Montoya's pre-K bilingual teacher, said."He had a talent for drawing and his favorite thing to draw was dinosaurs.

The district said Rodriguez Montoya is survived by"by a loving and supportive family, including his parents and siblings, grandparents, aunts and uncles, and lots of cousins, who will miss him dearly."'All I was thinking was just him flying around the bus' | Mother of pre-K student in Bastrop school bus crash recalls horrifying moments

 

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