UNC student speaks for the first time a week after his parents died in an Orange County crash

Posted Aug 28, 2025
It’s been just over a week since two beloved Cleveland teachers — husband and wife Donald Nunney and Maria Galindo Nunney — died in a car crash in North Carolina. According to reporting by WKYC, the couple, both educators in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District and parents of four, were killed Aug. 15 in a crash that also injured two of their children. (WRAL.com)

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