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Girl Dies After Prom; Brother Injured In Wreck

Boy Crashed Car While Trying To Get Home To Mom, Police Say

POSTED: 7:54 am PDT May 13, 2008
UPDATED: 8:51 am PDT May 13, 2008

A mother is dealing with a double tragedy after her daughter is killed during a weekend prom date and her son is severely injured in a wreck.

Jennifer Carrigan and Steven Furtado were found dead Sunday by Carrigan's mother at a house in Chester, about 90 miles northwest of Reno. Both were 18.

When told of his sister's death, 20-year-old Billy Carrigan headed home from Berkeley. Shortly before 7 p.m. Sunday, just before he reached Chester, Billy Carrigan crashed his Toyota Tacoma pickup truck into a stand of pine trees along Highway 36.

A spokeswoman at Enloe Medical Center in Chico said he was in critical condition.

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