Fox 4 Dallas Fort Worth
@fox4news·988K subscribers·33.1K videos
Arlington Lamar High School mourns students after East Texas crash
Posted
October 16, 2018
Views
8,928
Likes
117
Comments
28
Engagement
October 16, 2018
8,928
117
28
1.62%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
2:42Now PlayingArlington Lamar High School is in mourning after two students and a parent were killed in a car crash.
Faith Whittaker and Jessica Brown were in a Jeep Renegade being driven by Faith's mother Monday morning near Tyler.
DPS says the Jeep drifted into a semi-trailer that was parked legally on the side of I-20. The two 16-year-old girls and the mother were all killed in the wreck.
Faith and Jessica were student athletic trainers for Lamar High School who volunteered for Bryant Grice.
“Kids who get involved in athletic training care about people and want to help. They have selfless hearts,” Grice said.
Faith's mother, 36-year-old Chelsea Brewer, was the driver who also died in the crash.
Lamar's basketball coach says Faith and her mother were from Mississippi. Coach Jarrett Howell believes there were on the road so early trying to get back in time for school.
“They were two wonderful young ladies. Bright spirits,” Howell said. “Faith was like the mother of all the managers. Motherly figure around everyone. Sweet. Protective. Well-liked by everyone. Beautiful soul. Jessica was the free spirit. Extremely happy. Always a smile on her face.”
In addition to being student athletic trainers, Faith played softball and Jessica was in a culinary arts program. Students are taking it hard.
“They are either in shock, don't believe it or not taking it well,” Howell said. “One basketball player in tears held his hands out. He said, ‘Coach, I need a hug.’ He didn't believe it.”
Student athletic trainers are often interested in careers in physical therapy. Howell says they were hard working and focused.
“The light behind that is they had such a big positive impact on our student body,” Howell said. “That is what we should celebrate and carry forward and honor their lives.”
The school has grief counselors available to help students.
DPS says the driver of the big rig the Jeep struck was not injured. The crash is still under investigation.
FOX 4 News is a FOX-owned station serving Dallas-Fort Worth and all of North Texas.
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
