Rockville, MD: 17-Years Old Gonzaga College High School Student killed in Car Crash in Montgomery County on Saturday ealy morning,1st November 2014
Dominik Pettey, 17, had been killed in an early morning car accident.
“Some people broke down immediately,” said linebacker Sean Fitzgerald, 17. “Others just didn’t believe it.”
Pettey, who played on the school’s hockey team, and four others were in a disabled vehicle parked on the side of the Capital Beltway south of Persimmon Tree Road in Montgomery County when they were struck by another vehicle. Pettey was pronounced dead at the scene.
Maryland State Police said Margaret Christine Baisely, 24, of Rockville, was driving a 2013 Jeep Compass about 2 a.m. when she crashed into the rear of a 2009 Honda Accord stopped on the right shoulder of the highway.
Baisley, who was taken to Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, showed signs of being impaired, and an investigation of the crash is continuing, police said. Andrew Frederick May, 19, the driver of the Honda in which Pettey was riding, and three passengers were also taken to area hospitals. Police said they did not have updated information on their conditions.
Pettey’s death roiled the tight-knit, all-boys Jesuit school located a few blocks from Union Station.
“The entire Gonzaga High School community is deeply grieved by the tragic death of one of our seniors,” the Rev. Stephen W. Planning, the school president, said in a statement. “Dom was a beloved student, hockey player, and friend to all. We ask for prayers for the Pettey family as well as for the other boys injured in this terrible accident.”
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Friends, schoolmates remember Gonzaga student killed in Montgomery County crash