The Colorado fencing community is in mourning after an accomplished wheelchair fencer was killed in a hit-and-run in Lakewood Friday night. Terre Engdahl was a parafencer and competed with the Denver Fencing Center where he won several awards.
“Even though he’s gone, I have a smile on my face, because you can’t help it when you think about every time he walked in the door,” said Jataya Taylor, a friend of Engdahl’s and fellow parafencer.
Taylor and Engdahl met a year and a half ago when Taylor began training as a wheelchair fencer. A Marine veteran, Taylor lost her leg in a training accident.
After meeting Engdahl on her first day at the center, Taylor said he freely shared with her his fencing wheelchair.
“Our chairs are a part of our personality and we get protective over our adaptive equipment,” said Taylor. “But Terre’s like, ‘No, you sit in it, you fence!’ He was always willing to share anything he had.”
Read the full story at Denver7.com.
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