Ohio Car Crash: 6 Teens Die In Tragic Ohio Car Crash; 2 Survived

UPDATE: 6 Teens Die In Tragic Ohio Car Crash [DETAILS EMERGE]

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Teens Killed In Ohio Car Crash Were Moving At ‘High Rate’ Of Speed: Investigator Details

WARREN, Ohio — Investigators on Monday tried to piece together what eight teenagers crammed into a stolen SUV were up to before the vehicle flipped over into a pond, killing six of them.

Authorities gave few details on where the group of friends had been and why they were out around daybreak Sunday, speeding down a two-lane road. On Monday, the SUV’s owner met with police and filed a stolen-car report; police said none of the teens was related to the owner or had asked to use the vehicle.

Whether all the teens knew the SUV was stolen wasn’t clear. Neither was their whereabouts before the crash.

While the father of one of the dead said the teenagers were coming home from a sleepover at a friend’s house, the mother of another boy killed said that her son and his best friend had lied about staying over at each other’s homes that evening. She said she thinks they went to a party.

“If only he had listened,” said Lisa Williamson, mother of 14-year-old Brandon Murray. “I told him, `Don’t you go nowhere.’ But they’re kids.”

The SUV hit a guardrail in an industrial section of town and landed upside down in about 5 feet of water, filling up within minutes, State Highway Patrol Lt. Brian Holt said. Five boys and a young woman, ages 14 to 19, were killed.

Two boys smashed a rear window, wriggled out of the wreckage and swam away, then ran a quarter-mile to a home to call 911, authorities said. Brian Henry, 18, and Asher Lewis, 15, suffered only minor injuries.