The parents of two high school seniors who died in a car crash allege their sons were left along the side of the road for several hours after police overlooked them while investigating the accident. Brandon Smith and Dominique Green, both 18, were killed in the single-vehicle accident this weekend in Gary, Indiana, and two other occupants survived the crash and told emergency workers over and over that two of their friends were still at the crash site.
Brandon’s father, Arthur Smith, said the police refused to listen to the two surviving boys and did not look for his son and Green. Mr. Smith found the boys’ bodies himself when he went to the scene of the accident.
Mr. Smith: “It took me all of five minutes to find the boys dead. They were right there. I just saw my son. I saw my baby.”
Gary Police Department Commander Samuel Roberts told the Post-Tribune that the officer who responded to the accident did not deviate from departmental procedures. He could not explain why the two teens were left along the roadside and said he did not yet know all the details of the case.
Jacquelyn Green said she is not blaming anyone for her son’s death. But she said that if Arthur Smith was able to find the boys in a matter of minutes, police should easily have been able to find them much sooner. Mourners held a vigil at the accident scene late Saturday, with some saying that the boys may not have died if police found them sooner.
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