Beloved Fresno County teacher dies after collapsing in classroom

EASTON, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A beloved teacher described by his superintendent arsenic "incredibly loved and cherished" passed distant aft helium collapsed connected campus, according to the Fresno County Sheriff's Office and schoolhouse officials.

David Maynez, the transgression justness teacher astatine Washington Union High School, passed distant connected Wednesday aft helium was rushed to the infirmary connected Tuesday.

Washington Union High School's David Maynez

According to officials, David Maynez collapsed successful the schoolroom connected Tuesday, and deputies with the Fresno County Sheriff's Office responded to the scene. He was taken to the hospital, wherever helium passed distant the adjacent day.

The superintendent of Washington Union High School, Randy Morris, said David Maynez was cherished by his school, "not conscionable successful the mode each bully teacher is admired, but successful a mode that near a lasting people connected each who knew him."

He was instrumental successful increasing and strengthening our Law and Justice program, and his dedication, passion, and kindness touched not lone our students and staff, but besides our greater assemblage and, astir importantly, his family.