Deaths Of Young Doctor, Dublin Resident Mourned

DUBLIN, CA — Dr. Ethan Ross Sellers was just 29 when he died early Thursday morning in a fiery Dublin crash. Preliminary evidence indicates the car he was driving, a 2008 Mazda Miata, was speeding south on Fallon Road when it veered off the street and struck a light pole, police said. When officers arrived the vehicle was engulfed in flames and Sellers and his passenger—35-year-old Matthew Paul McEnerney of Dublin—were unconscious inside. Police and firefighters tried to save the lives of the men but the two died.

Sellers, who lived in Walnut Creek, was a 2016 graduate of Thomas Jefferson University Sidney Kimmel Medical College in Philadelphia. He attended the Family Medicine Residency program at Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center and graduated in June. He was to continue his education with a Palliative Care Fellowship at UC Davis Medical Center, according to his obituary.

A Celebration of Life is being held Tuesday in the main courtyard at the Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center starting at 6 p.m. Additionally, the Ethan Sellers Memorial Scholarship Fund has been established in his memory, his obituary stated.

Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center Family Residency program director Ted O'Connell told Bay Area News Group that Sellers "was a wonderfully humanistic person; an outstanding physician who really took the time to get to know his patients ... [and who] would have been a brilliant palliative care physician.”

"Ethan loved life and lived it to its fullest. His heart's desire was to serve others, and although his time in medicine was brief, he touched many lives, bringing his warmth, compassion and kindness to all," his obituary reads.

Sellers' passenger, McEnerney, is being equally mourned. The eight-year Dublin resident was married and a "devoted dog dad," according to his obituary. Born in Park Ridge, Illinois, he graduated from Hersey High School and went on to earn a degree in communications from Beloit College in Wisconsin.

He moved to the Bay Area and began a career in media, and he did some acting, with appearances in the films "Red Tails" and "Moneyball"—the latter perhaps stemming from his college baseball career that eventually segued into coaching for the local Danville Crushers.

At the time of his passing, McEnerney was working in marketing for SAP, and was described as "a positive, genuinely engaging, thoughtful person with a smile that carried the attention of the room," according to his obituary.

McEnerney was married to his wife, Becca, in 2011.

"His positive attitude and generous spirit will be missed by all that knew him," his obituary reads.

His memorial service is being held Saturday, 10 a.m., at Crosswinds Church, 1660 Freisman Road, in Livermore.