Five killed in Newport Beach crash
Cypress High School students, from left, Ramond Bada, 19; Josh Ong, 18; Alex Jamili, 17; Ian Song, 17; and Austin Milam, 17, mourn the loss of their friend, Irvine High School senior Robin Cabrera, 17. Robin was one of five teens killed in a fiery single-vehicle crash with a tree on a downhill stretch of Jamboree Road near Island Lagoon Drive on Memorial Day in Newport Beach. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Irvine High School students, from left, Gina Nguyen, 17; Delaram Danesh, 18; and Haider Al Hamawendi, 18, gather near a memorial set up at the site of a car wreck in which five teens were killed. Al Hamawendi’s younger brother, Nozad, was among the casualties. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Friends of the killed teenagers write messages on the tree at the crash site. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Flowers, candles, letters and photos are left at the crash site in Newport Beach. From left in the framed photographs are crash victims Robin Cabrera, Aurora “Christine” Cabrera and Cecilia D. Zamora. All three attended Irvine High School. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
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Crime scene investigators measure the girth of the tree into which the teenagers’ vehicle crashed. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
A police officer walks by a crumpled vehicle on Jamboree Road north of Island Lagoon Drive on Monday evening. (Kent Treptow / Special to the Daily Pilot)
Police officers inspect the crumpled wreckage of an Infiniti in which five Irvine teenagers were killed. (Kent Treptow / Special to the Daily Pilot)
Irvine High School classmates, from left, Shadi Masoud, 16, Aram Yaco, 17, and Kelly Dunkle, 17, crouch at the base of a pine tree in the median of Jamboree Road, where the crash occurred. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
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Kelly Dunkle, 17, cries as she talks about her friend Cecilia D. Zamora, who died in the crash. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Shadi Masoud, 16, holds bits of shattered glass and car parts that he found at the base of a tree where his friends died. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
