KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Surveillance video helped police identify and arrest four juveniles connected to a deadly car crash that happened on Monday, killing a Turner middle school student.
Four teens were scheduled to be in juvenile court Wednesday afternoon, charged in connection with the deadly wreck.
Sources told FOX 4 News that a group of six teens was joyriding in a stolen SUV Monday afternoon when the driver lost control while trying to avoid a barricaded section of the street and rolled the vehicle.
Two girls were ejected from the SUV. Casey Knight, 14, died at the scene. Another girl remains in critical condition. The Wyandotte County Sheriff said one of the teens in custody is a 14-year-old boy. He faces juvenile charges of possession of stolen property.
Police made arrests in the case after a neighbor showed them surveillance video of three teens walking out of the woods near the crash scene.
One of the girls appears to be injured, holding her side. And homeowner Bill Kiesling said he called to the group as they crossed his property to see if he could help them, but they just kept walking away.
“The kids knew they had done wrong, but they just added to it by leaving their friends,” Kiesling said. “You shouldn’t do that.”
Kiesling served six years in the Marine Corps during Vietnam and says he takes it personally that the teens may have deserted their friends at their greatest moment of need. He said he didn’t know about the accident at the time he saw the kids walking through his yard. And he can’t help but think he could have helped the girls, if only one of their friends had told him what happened.
Neighbors said it appeared that the teens tried to make a quick turn to avoid the blocked-off street and that caused the rollover.
