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Two J.R. Tucker High School students were killed in a weekend crash, high school officials confirmed in a letter to the Tucker community.

"It is with a heavy heart that I am reaching out to you this evening. With the permission of their families, I am writing to let you know about the untimely loss of two of our students, tenth-graders Aiden Schmidt and Joseph Castro. The young men were killed in a car accident over the weekend. A third teen was also seriously injured in the accident," the letter read that shared resources designed to help families and classmates process the tragedy.

Virginia State Police say the crash happened at around 11 p.m. on Saturday on the 1200 block of Hockett Road, near Tuckahoe Creek Parkway, in Goochland County.

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