Tributes Held for Three Euless Teens Killed in Car Crash
The first of three vigils planned for Wednesday focused primarily on the youngest of the three teens killed - Lolo Uhatafe, 13, who would have been a 9th grader at Euless Junior High School this fall.
Tributes to three teenagers killed in a car crash in New Mexico this week continued in Euless on Wednesday.
The first of three vigils planned for Wednesday focused primarily on the youngest victim, Lolo Uhatafe, 13. He would have been a ninth-grader at Euless Junior High School this fall.
Uhatafe, his older brother, Polo Manukainiu, 19; and his brother's friend, Gaius Vaenuku, 18; died Monday evening when the car they were in rolled over along U.S. 550, according to New Mexico State Police.
They were not wearing seat belts, state police said.
Hundreds of Uhatafe's friends, family members, classmates and teachers packed the junior high's gymnasium Wednesday morning for a memorial service that featured singing, tears and laughter as speakers reminisced about him.
David Eteaki, Uhatafe and Manukainiu's said the turnout was "amazing."
"It kind of tells you the support that the kid had at the school here," he said. "It's just really nice to see."
The medical examiner handling the investigation released the teens' bodies to family members Wednesday, Eteaki said. They should arrive back in the Dallas-Fort Worth area Wednesday night.
The Euless teens were returning to North Texas after visiting the University of Utah, which Vaenuku was to attend in the fall. A standout All-State football player at Euless' Trinity High School, Vaenuku would have continued his football career with the Utes.
Manukainiu was a redshirt freshman on Texas A&M's football team, and Uhatafe had dreams of following in his brother's footsteps.
"While you're walking, he's running," Eteaki said. "You know, he's always a step ahead of everybody. That's what I'm going to miss about him."
Moa Garcia, Uhatafe's aunt, told NBC 5 that the teen was just as quick with a joke or a story to entertain friends and family.
"That's how he is -- he's a very funny, very funny kid," she said. "People said, 'Short kid, but a big heart.' We're surely going to miss him."
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