Friends and family members on Friday were mourning the death of a 19-year-old Kansas University freshman from Shawnee killed in a single-vehicle rollover wreck on Kansas Highway 10.

Andrew M. Weir, 19, a Shawnee Mission North High School graduate described as a good student and talented hockey player, died in a wreck late Thursday near milepost 10 outside Eudora. He was pronounced dead at the scene after emergency workers found his 1991 Chevrolet Blazer heavily damaged and at rest in the median.

The cause of the wreck remained under investigation Friday and probably won’t be determined until early next week, said Maj. Ken McGovern of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, the lead investigating agency.

Weir had been driving west on K-10, police said. Jillian Wohlgemuth, whose home is near the accident scene and who saw the aftermath of the wreck, said the Blazer was resting on its wheels in the median but facing east.

Lawrence-Douglas County Fire & Medical workers tried to give aid to Weir at the scene. Wohlgemuth said she saw crews doing cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Weir for 15 to 20 minutes, but they eventually stopped and got in a circle to pray, she said.

“They tried doing the best they could,” she said.

Sheriff’s officials said they were dispatched to the wreck about 11:30 p.m. after a call from the neighborhood. But Wohlgemuth, who was awake inside her home and came to the scene to make sure it wasn’t a friend of hers, said she was certain she didn’t hear any sirens until about midnight.

The Kansas Highway Patrol and Eudora Police Department assisted.

Weir lived in McCollum Hall on the KU campus and had enrolled as a biology and political science major, KU officials said.

“This tragic accident fills us with sadness, and we offer our heartfelt condolences to his family and friends,” KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway said in a statement Friday.

KU student dies in car crash

Residence hall officials were still working Friday to notify people who knew Weir, but they said it was difficult because many people had gone home for the weekend.

James DeWitt, a high school classmate, played with Weir on Shawnee Mission Northwest’s hockey team because their school didn’t have its own team. He said Weir was a bright student and talented hockey center who planned to keep playing the sport while at KU. DeWitt said he and other friends had gone to the family’s home Friday to offer support.

“He’s one of those multitalented kind of people that do well at everything they do,” DeWitt said. “Stuff like that shouldn’t happen to someone like him.”

One of Weir’s family members, reached by telephone Friday, said the family was still deciding whether to give a statement about him.

— 6News reporter/anchor Janet Reid contributed to this report.