18-year-old Luther Wiggins Stoudermire was a standout football player at Olympic High School in Bremerton. Fourteen-year-old Jenna Farley was a cheerleader at Olympic High. And there was 16-year-old Kassidy Clark.
All three were riding in the car that slammed into a tree on Seabeck Holly Road. The two females were sitting in the back and, say neighbors, were ejected from the vehicle.
"It's really sad," said Calvin Caldwell, 17. "I lost a friend, Luther."
Caldwell said he felt compelled to come to the scene. He knew the teens and wanted to see where they died.
"It's crazy that I just last seen him last week," said Caldwell. "And now he's gone, along with Kassidy and Jenna."
Behind the wheel, say Kitsap County Sheriff's deputies, was a 17-year-old male, a standout high school basketball player. They were coming from a party, heading for a lookout point, say friends, to watch the sun rise.
Neighbors said the vehicle likely went airborne. It was about 3:15 Sunday morning. The crash was so loud, it woke up the neighborhood.
"And I figured, boy, something bad happened," said longtime neighbor Jerry Hicks.
He ticked off several fatal accidents along a quarter-mile stretch of Seabeck Holly Road, in which six teenagers were killed.
"Four of them in the past two years," said Hicks. "And the other two girls were probably 15 years ago. Yeah, it's bad."
And now three more families have reason to grieve.
The 17-year-old driver is in juvenile detention on investigation of three counts of vehicular homicide.
He could make a court appearance Monday.
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