{"id":150666,"date":"2026-03-28T04:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T04:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/150666\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T04:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T04:44:09","slug":"emotional-candlelight-vigil-honors-4-yough-high-school-students-who-died-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/150666\/","title":{"rendered":"Emotional candlelight vigil honors 4 Yough High School students who died in crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people attended a candlelight vigil on Friday night for the four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/deadly-crash-investigation-yough-high-school-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Yough High School students<\/a> killed in a crash last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said 15-year-old Brady Hunker, 18-year-old Rocco Zugai, 15-year-old Felicity Martini and 16-year-old Kylee Korber were killed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/fatal-crash-creek-road-sewickley-township\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">crash<\/a>\u00a0on March 21 near Creek Road in Sewickley Township.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/kdka-brady-hunker-felicity-martini-kylee-korber-rocco-zugai.png#.png\" alt=\"kdka-brady-hunker-felicity-martini-kylee-korber-rocco-zugai.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  15-year-old Brady Hunker (left), 15-year-old Felicity Martini (left middle), 16-year-old Kylee Korber (right middle) and 18-year-old Rocco Zugai (right) were killed in the crash on March 21, 2026, near Creek Road in Sewickley Township, Westmoreland County.<\/p>\n<p>                (Photo Credit: KDKA)<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle left the roadway before striking a tree and becoming engulfed in flames, investigators said. Now, a memorial with flowers, pictures and crosses sits at the crash site, a reminder of the young lives lost.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The vigil was at Crabapple Park and Pool in Herminine and was filled with prayer, quiet reflection and remembrance. Melissa Cangioli called it a &#8220;beautiful service.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been forced to say goodbye way too soon,&#8221; said a pastor who spoke at the vigil. &#8220;It&#8217;s not fair. It is wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another pastor offered a poignant commentary while standing in front of the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I want our young people to remember when we get behind the wheels of our vehicles, you are expected to drive respectfully and responsibly,&#8221; the pastor said. &#8220;I know these are difficult words for me to share, but I think they are important words.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The service ended with the singing of &#8220;Amazing Grace,&#8221; the release of lanterns and the lighting of individual candles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was difficult, but I stayed strong through it,&#8221; said Alexis Hays, a friend of Martini. &#8220;Felicity was a great person. She was the best person that she could be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Classmates of the victims told KDKA on March 23 that they will not be &#8220;forgotten.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re always going to be within our hearts and our souls,&#8221; a classmate said. &#8220;They&#8217;re always going to be walking beside us and watching down on us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on the crash can call the Pennsylvania State Police at 724-832-3288.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of people attended a candlelight vigil on Friday night for the four Yough High School students killed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,5910],"class_list":{"0":"post-150666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-pittsburgh","9":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","10":"tag-pittsburgh-news","11":"tag-westmoreland-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}