PROCTORVILLE, Ohio (WSAZ) – After a motorcycle crash that killed a high school senior on his 18th birthday, a community is now trying to deal with his death and figure out how to better enforce safety.
Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers say Jason Willis and a friend were riding off-road motorcycles Saturday afternoon when they pulled off onto the state right-of-way near Ohio 7. Troopers say Willis went over a steep embankment, where he was thrown from his bike and killed.
He was a senior at Fairland High School.
“Everybody's just kind of numb right now,” Principal Chad Belville said. “It really hasn't set in.”
Friends and family of a teenager killed in an motorcycle crash on his 18th birthday came together Monday night for a candlelight vigil to honor his memory.
On Wednesday, November 13, Fairland High School students will have an opportunity to pay their last respects to classmate Jason Willis. Under the escort of the Lawrence County Sheriff's Department and the Ohio Highway Patrol, students will walk from Fairland High School to First Baptist Church of Proctorville at 10:30 am. Students will have the opportunity to attend the 11 am funeral services for Jason at this time. Upon completion of funeral services, students will be escorted back to Fairland High School.
4 comments:
So sad....yet so nice of the school to let the kids attend the service!
That is such a hard thing to go through as a school community! We lost a 2013 alumni (who both my boys knew from swim team) to suicide in September, and it really shook a lot of our boys.
I am glad they were given the opportunity to attend the funeral services. Did your boys know him well?
So sorry about the young boy. Everyone must be devastated. Hopefully there will be grief counselors to help these students try to handle the loss of their friend.
so tragic.
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