Oakland Tribune  OAKLAND -- Three days from finishing a three-
month personal challenge to put others first, Jose Antonio
Durante left a church event in East Oakland to help a stranger
who had run out of gas.  That act of kindness would be his last.
As he and two friends pushed the car, a man who admitted to
police he had consumed alcohol and used methamphetamine before
getting behind the wheel plowed into Durante, got out of his
truck and ran away, witnesses said. The 39-year-old Pittsburg
man later died at the hospital.  "He wanted nothing in return.
That was the most remarkable thing about him," said Sanjev
Desilva, a youth leadership director of the Mosaic Project,
where Durante worked. "If you tried to give him gas money, he'd
refuse it."  Jose Durante (Courtesy of Heidi Pese) Jose Durante
(Courtesy of Heidi Pese) (Jose Durante Memorial Fund)  His
actions in the moments before his death personify Durante,
friends said. A devout Christian and church youth director, he
helped people move and offered rides