Car-bicycle crash claims life of missionary

A 21-year-old Mormon missionary who was critically injured in a car-bicycle crash Thurday has died.

According to Kent fire officials, William Tenney Angilau, Jr., of Salt Lake City was riding his bicycle in the 12000 block of Southeast 208th Street when the vehicle struck him.

When aid arrived at about 1:40 p.m., firefighters found Angilau unconscious in the street, his heart having stopped, according to a fire department statement. Aid workers were able to get his heart beating again.

Angilau was rushed to Harborview Medical Center, where he died Friday afternoon surrounded by his family, said Tracy Branch, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that Angilau attended.

Branch said Angilau had been in the Seattle area since June 2005. His mission would have been completed next month.

"He's been working to pay his own way for almost his whole life," Branch said Friday.

Another cyclist who was riding with the man and the driver both escaped injury. A King County Sheriff's Office spokesman said the agency is investigating the crash.