BETHLEHEM TWP., Pa. \u2014 The death of a 17-year-old student outside Freedom High School early Sunday was the result of teens \u201cparticipating in reckless behavior,\u201d the police chief said Monday.<\/p>\n
Police identified the victim as David Nagy, of Bethlehem Township.<\/p>\n
The coroner found Nagy died of blunt force trauma to the head after colliding with a parked car, township Police Chief Gregory Gottschall said.<\/p>\n
Citing an ongoing criminal investigation, Gottschall would not elaborate on specifically how the collision occurred or what the teens were doing. <\/p>\n
Nagy was not in a vehicle at the time of the collision, Gottschall said. <\/p>\n
It happened just before 1:30 a.m. in a Freedom High parking lot.<\/p>\n
The incident involved five teens, including the victim, and two vehicles, according to the chief. The initial police news release described the incident as a fatal pedestrian crash.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone involved has been cooperative,\u201d Gottschall said. \u201cIt was a group of friends involved in the incident. A number of teenagers were participating in reckless behavior. That behavior resulted in the death of the victim.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nagy\u2019s manner of death is pending the results of the investigation. Both Gottschall and Northampton County District Attorney Stephen Baratta described it as a criminal investigation.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy investigators are still executing search warrants and they\u2019re still looking at everything,\u201d Gottschall said.<\/p>\n
Nagy was about to complete his junior year at Freedom, Gottschall said.<\/p>\n
Bethlehem Area School District officials in a message Sunday confirmed a student died.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is with deep sadness that we communicate this devastating news,\u201d said the message posted on the high school and school district websites. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe district will be deploying counselors and additional resources to Freedom [on Monday], and ongoing as needed, to assist with any students and\/or staff members who are in need of support \u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cOn behalf of the BASD community, we offer our heartfelt sympathy to the family and to all those affected by this tragic incident.\u201d<\/p>\n
Township police are seeking witnesses and additional information.<\/p>\n
They ask anyone with information to contact the Northampton County 911 Operations Center at 610-759-2200 or township police Investigator Gretchen Kraemer at 610-814-6473 or gkraemer@bethlehemtwp.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM TWP., Pa. \u2014 The death of a 17-year-old student outside Freedom High School early Sunday was the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,1412,155,154,2620,2619,2621,2622,2623,2624,2625],"class_list":["post-2955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-area-school-district","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-township-fatal-accident","tag-bethlehem-township-police-department","tag-david-nagy-death","tag-david-nagy-obituary","tag-freedom-high-school-accident","tag-freedom-high-school-incident","tag-northampton-county-district-attorneys-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955","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=2955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}