Friends and family grieve fathers killed in Granite Bay car crash

GRANITE BAY – Household and buddies are grieving the sudden lack of 4 males, killed in a single-vehicle crash in Granite Bay Wednesday night time.

Candles at the moment are lit on the crash web site to honor the reminiscence of the lads killed, and other people gave one another hugs to assist heal the shock over their sudden loss.

“We are able to simply pray, for them,” Apeet Hundal stated. 

Individuals who knew the 4 buddies, all fathers, got here one after one other in disbelief.

“I am unable to say sufficient about him, he is a improbable man and that is why I am right here tonight,” Kevin Hilton stated.

“I simply wished to come back out right here for the households, say a fast prayer, and I simply wished to present them my coronary heart,” Ben Straw stated.

The CHP has confirmed the identities of all of the victims.

Passengers Paul Hammack, 53,  Karan Pannu, 45, and Patrick Gainer, 65, together with driver Jerry Cepel, 61.

The white Mercedes Benz plowed into a number of bushes on East Roseville Parkway at 9 p.m. Wednesday, earlier than bursting into flames. Everybody died on the scene.

CBS13 has realized the lads had been at a close-by restaurant and bar previous to the crash, and the affect occurred only a block from the Granite Bay Nation Membership the place they had been all members.

Cindy Schlenz lives subsequent door to the crash scene and says the sound of the affect was like nothing she’s heard earlier than.

“And I do not even know if the home shook, nevertheless it didn’t sound like a automobile crash in any respect,” Schlenz stated. “There wasn’t any, like, breaking or something that you’d hear after which a crash. There was simply, it was simply immediately the most important increase.”

Now a neighborhood is in mourning.

“You recognize, these had been dads, you already know they’re dads in our neighborhood, and I am a dad, and it simply hit me understanding that 4 dads had been misplaced,” Invoice Reynolds stated. 

The CHP is main the investigation. They are saying at this level it is unknown if medicine or alcohol had been concerned within the crash.