Humble Marine Killed Before Christmas Is Laid To Rest

KINGWOOD, TX -- A Humble area Marine who was killed in a traffic accident on a California freeway just days before Christmas, was buried with full military honors at Houston National Cemetery on Friday.

Staff Sgt. Enrico Rojo, 29, was on the way to LAX on Dec. 19 to fly home with his girlfriend for the Christmas holiday when he was killed while stopping to help a woman who’d been involved in a rollover accident.

“Any decent person would have done the same thing," Miguel Rojo told the Houston Chronicle Thursday afternoon as he prepared to attend his son's visitation at Kingwood Funeral Home.

According to the California Highway Patrol investigators, Crystal Martinez flipped her car after colliding with a tractor-trailer on Interstate 10.

Rojo saw the accident and pulled over to help Martinez, and was hit and killed by the driver of a Hyundai Sonata that’d swerved to avoid another vehicle.

Rojo died at the scene and Martinez was arrested and charged with suspicion of driving under the influence.

Enrico Rojo graduated from Humble High School 2005, and after graduation decided to attend technical school, but didn't finish because he joined the Marine Corps in 2009.

Rojo was honorably discharged from the Marine Corps in 2015, and became certified as a mechanic and was studying aviation at California Baptist University.

He was engaged in 2015 Michelle Medina, from Palm Springs, California and was looking forward to a future with her as his wife.

They planned to marry after he graduated in 2018.

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