Police name six teens killed in Ohio SUV crash
WARREN, Ohio A sport utility vehicle carrying eight teenagers crashed into a guardrail Sunday morning and flipped over into a swampy pond in northeast Ohio, killing five boys and a girl, the state highway patrol said.
The Honda Passport veered off the left side of a road and overturned just south of the city of Warren, about 60 miles east of Cleveland, Lt. Anne Ralston said. Investigators say it came to rest upside down in the swamp and sank with five of the victims trapped inside. A sixth who was thrown from the SUV during the crash was found under it when the vehicle was taken out of the water.
The two boys who survived, escaped from the submerged vehicle and ran to a nearby home to call 911, the highway patrol said.
Ralston didn't know where the teens were headed when the crash happened at about 7 a.m. She didn't have any information to release on possible causes or factors in the crash, but the highway patrol planned a news conference for Sunday night.
"All I know is my baby is gone," said Derrick Ray, who came to the crash site after viewing his 15-year-old son Daylan's body at the county morgue. He said he knew that his son, a talented football player who was looking forward to playing in high school, was out with friends, but didn't know their plans.\
Ashia Cayson said she learned of her sister's death Sunday morning, when she had just been thinking of her.
"She was loving. She was silly, and she was a clown," Ashia said, according to WKBN. "She like to make everybody laugh even when we were sad. I just want everybody to know that if you are going through something, pick up the phone and call your siblings, your family and tell them you love them. You never know what can happen. Tomorrow is not promised to anybody.
A pile of blue, green and copper-red stuffed bears grew at a makeshift memorial at the crash site along a two-lane road tightly bordered with guardrails on either side in an industrial area. The sport utility vehicle had sheared off tall cattails along the guardrail.
There were also notes at the memorial, including a letter from Daylan Ray's 12-year-old half-sister, Mariah Bryant, who said she had learned they were related only in the past year.
"It hurts, it really does, because they are so young and, like, they could have had so much more to life," she said. "We just really started getting close, and it's hard to believe he's gone."
Warren Fire Department Capt. Bill Monrean said a cold water rescue team was deployed to the scene and got five teens out of the submerged vehicle.
"Being a cold water rescue situation, cold water extends life," Monrean told The Associated Press. "We knew we had a chance; even being in there a while."
Mindy Morgan reads a note at the memorial where six teens were killed in a car crash on Park Ave. in Warren, Ohio on Sunday, March 10, 2013.
/ AP Photo/Scott R. GalvinTwo of the teens, both 15, were brought to a hospital in full cardiac arrest, St. Joseph Health Center nursing supervisor Julie Gill said, and were pronounced dead there. She said they were treated for hypothermic drowning trauma, indicating they had been submerged in cold water.
The two who survived, 18-year-old Brian Henry and 15-year-old Asher Lewis, both of Warren, were treated for bruising and other injuries and released, she said.
All those killed were ages 14 to 19, authorities said. State police identified them as 19-year-old Alexis Cayson; Andrique Bennett, 14; Brandon Murray, 17; and Kirklan Behner, Ramone White and Ray, all 15. The Highway Patrol said Alexis was the only female in the vehicle. It wasn't clear who was driving.
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the parents are perhaps the only people who know what exactly was going on
that led to such an incident fortunately no one else on the road came in contact with the out of control driver! No one was wearing a seat belt? Where do people learn this from T.V? My God, when does a country Grow Up?
seriously, i know there's a freedom of speech but that was put in when people actually used common sense before they opened their mouths. im not sure which is more upsetting... the tragedy that has occurred or the lack of compassion and just plain ignorance of the people today!!!! my condolences go out to the families and god bless you and help you through these times. and for those of you who have a rude remark or comment due everybody a favor and keep ur simple minded thoughts to yourself and move on!
These "babies" stole an SUV from over 20 miles away. Doesn't matter if all of them weren't in on the actual theft -- there is no way that all of them did not know about it, and they reaped what they had sown with such stupid and idiotic behavior. I feel awful for their parents, but their parents are grieving the loss of six teens - NOT "babies", NOT little kids - who were knowingly and willingly part of theft. That is the legacy these parents will have to remember as the last acts their children committed.
Says everything we need to know about the mindset of these teens and the illegal "fun" they were having with a stolen vehicle.
Unfortunately, it was a fatal lesson. I feel awful for the parents. Not for the teens who stole (or willingly took part in the use of a stolen vehicle -- do not be a fool, every one of them knew it was stolen even if every one of them was not involved in the theft).
They reaped what they had sown.
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the guardrail looks like it's too low ... top of rail is below the knee of one of the persons standing next to it.
should be 27 to 31 inches high.
No barrier could have eased this kind of accident.