BROADWAY, N.C. — Troopers are investigating a deadly hit and run crash that happened late Saturday night.
Two teens were killed, another teen is in critical condition, Sunday night.
Investigators are asking for the public’s help to find out who could’ve done this.
“She loved doing her makeup. We did each other’s makeup (Saturday),” said Jessyka Schark, the sister of the teen girl who died.
After doing their makeup, Jessyka and 13-year old Jennafer Schark took a few photos.
Not too long after that they went to a convenience store on US 421 with their friends, Kyle Straight, age 16, and Steven Daniels, 14.
“We were going to get some candy from the Kangaroo,” Jessyka told WNCN. “On our way back, the truck hit us and ran down three of my friends. They kept going and never stopped, just stomped on the gas and kept going.”
Troopers say Jennafer and Kyle were killed. Steven was critically injured. Jessyka was unharmed.
Hours later family and friends are in shock over the teens’ deaths.
“She was just 13-years-old, just the prime of her life and something like this happens,” neighbor Carl McNeill said. “We just thought a lot of her and she was real sweet and kind.”
Jessyka described her sister as “a goofball and she loved being loud and making annoying noises and she was really great.”
“Kyle was a really good friend of mine and he was loud and funny just like Jennifer,” Jessyka said.
“He was a good kid. He was a really good kid,” said Melissa Jones of 16-year-old Kyle Straight.
Jones knew Straight well, and spoke to us about his parents’ loss.
“They’re extremely devastated by what’s happened,” she said.
Kyle’s mother suffered a heart attack Saturday — just hours before the deadly incident — and learned about her son’s death while in the hospital.
Sunday she came home to be with family and friends while the gravity of the situation sinks in.
“It’s a shame that their family’s having to go through this. That the other family that lost their daughter is having to go through this. They were just babies,” said Jones.
Kyle Straight’s family is in the process of planning his funeral, but is asking for financial help from the community. If you’d like to support them, you can make donations to the Knotts Funeral Home in Sanford.
But while multiple families are mourning, they have a message for the driver.
Jessyka told WNCN, “turn yourself in because it’s going to be worse in the end. There’s a lot of people upset.”
“I wish he would turn himself in and man up to it. The family would be more at ease and I believe he would be more at ease,” McNeill said.
Jessyka cried and said, “I just wish it wouldn’t have happened.”
Investigators are still trying to find out who the driver was to hit these teens and then speed off.
Anyone with information and/or tips should contact the Troop B Highway Patrol Communication Center at 1-800-334-7411 or the Harnett County Highway Patrol Office at (910)-893-5704.
