The State - News from April 6, 1988

A 28-year-old AIDS victim who died of massive injuries in a six-car accident was acting out a death wish, his friends said. Paul James Curry, a resident of a Hillcrest apartment complex for victims of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, died after he crashed head-on with another car while fleeing a California Highway Patrol officer in National City, a San Diego suburb. Three people sustained minor injuries and five other vehicles were damaged in the weekend accident. Fellow residents of Our House complex said Curry had refused medical treatment and was depressed about his slowly worsening condition from complications of the fatal virus. “He used to say he’d be glad when he died,” said Walter, a neighbor and AIDS patient who declined to give his last name. “He was in pain, physically and emotionally. I think it was a death wish.”