REMEMBERING DREW Hundreds Come To Say Goodbye To Teenager Killed In Wreck
Reported by: Elizabeth Norieka
Videographer: Troy Morgan
Web Producer: Bethany Simmons
Also Contributing: Kristin Keeling
Reported: Sep. 20, 2012 11:02 AM EDT
Updated: Sep. 20, 2012 8:39 PM EDT
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Charleston
, Kanawha County
, West Virginia
Hundreds of family, friends and loved ones gathered at the University of Charleston Thursday night to say their final farewells to 14 year old Drew Morton.
Services started at 3 p.m. Friends say they remember Drew as a fun loving young man who had a lot of potential both on and off the George Washington High School football field.
Morton was a passenger in a car driven by his 15-year-old friend Sunday morning in Kanawha City.
The driver only had a learner's permit, and lost control of the car.
Drew was not wearing a seat belt and later died from his injuries. The teen driver has been charged with negligent homicide.
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Elizabeth Norieka
