Photo Gallery: 5 teens killed in Newport car crash
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)
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)
A police officer walks by a crumpled vehicle on Jamboree Road north of Island Lagoon Drive on Monday evening. Five people died in the crash, which occurred at 5:20 p.m., according to Newport Beach Police Department spokeswoman Kathy Lowe. (Kent Treptow / Special to the Daily Pilot)
Police officers inspect a crumpled vehicle on Jamboree Road north of Island Lagoon Drive on Monday evening. (Kent Treptow / Special to the Daily Pilot)
A cell phone photo of Abdulrahman Alyahyan, left, the driver of the car in which 5 teenagers were killed on Monday in Newport Beach, CA. On the right is his Irvine High School friend Omar Soussan, who provided the photo. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
A cell phone photograph of Cecilia Zamora (center) who died Monday in a car crash on Jamboree Road. Girl on right is unidentified in a photo on the phone of Zamora’s Irvine High School classmate Kelly Dunkle. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Irvine High School classmates, left to right, Shadi Masoud, 16, Aram Yaco, 17, and Kelly Dunkle, 17, crouch at the base of a pine tree in the median on Jamboree Road where their friends died in a horrific car crash Monday. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Kelly Dunkle, 17, tears up as she talks about her friend Cecy Zamora who died Monday in a car crash here on Jamboree Road. (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 in a car crash that split the car in half and killed all 5 teenage occupants. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)