Two Texas Lutheran University football players were killed in the early hours of Monday, November 2, when their SUV crossed into the oncoming lanes of State Highway 46 in Seguin, Texas, at high speed and struck a guardrail, police said.
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The Seguin Police Department said officers responded to a serious crash at approximately 2:38 a.m. on Monday in the 1900 block of State Highway 46. Both young men were pronounced dead at the scene. Seguin is the county seat of Guadalupe County, roughly 35 miles northeast of San Antonio.
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What police say happened
According to the preliminary police account, the 2012 Kia Sorento was travelling southbound on Highway 46 at a high rate of speed when the driver lost control. The vehicle crossed into the northbound lanes before striking a guardrail. Both occupants suffered fatal injuries.
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A Seguin Police Department post reported by local outlets said emergency crews closed both the northbound and southbound lanes of the highway while first responders worked at the scene. Police have not publicly confirmed which of the two men was driving, and investigators have not established what caused the driver to lose control beyond the circumstances in the preliminary report.
The two players
A'Jean (AJ) Augustine, 20, of Houston, was a junior and the placekicker for the Texas Lutheran Bulldogs. A graduate of Lamar High School in Houston, he was in his third year on the football team and was majoring in kinesiology, according to the university's athletics department.
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Deyreck Dean, 23, of Rockwall, was a senior who played linebacker for Texas Lutheran for four years, from 2022 to 2025, according to the school's athletics department. Both men were students at the university as well as members of its football programme.
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A campus in mourning
Texas Lutheran University confirmed the deaths in a statement released on Monday. "Junior A'Jean (AJ) Augustine of Houston and senior Deyreck Dean of Rockwall, both student athletes, were beloved members of our community and we will long feel the impact of their loss," the university said.
Source: Texas Lutheran University statement
Texas Lutheran is a small private university in Seguin with about 1,500 students, where the Bulldogs football team is a central part of campus life — on a campus that size, the loss of two student-athletes reaches almost every classroom, dormitory and locker room. The university's statement did not announce memorial arrangements, and no funeral details had been released in the reports available as this story was published.
Highway 46 and the questions that remain
State Highway 46 is one of the main roads through Seguin and Guadalupe County, carrying local traffic as well as drivers heading toward New Braunfels and the Interstate 35 corridor. The crash happened in the early hours of the morning, when high speeds on an empty road leave almost no margin for error — the preliminary police findings describe a single vehicle, a loss of control, a crossing into the opposite lanes and an impact with a guardrail, a sequence investigators will now work through in detail.
Police have not said which man was driving, whether speed was the only factor, or whether anything else contributed to the loss of control. Those questions remain with the Seguin Police Department's investigation, and this report will be updated when officials release their findings.
What happens next
The Seguin Police Department's investigation into the crash is continuing. Until it concludes, the confirmed facts are the ones in the preliminary report: the time, the place, the vehicle, the direction of travel and the two young lives lost. For the Texas Lutheran community, the coming days will be about mourning two teammates — a junior kicker from Houston and a senior linebacker from Rockwall — whose deaths have left, in the university's words, a loss the campus will feel for a long time.