Update: Friends Remember Bradley Teen

The small town of Charleston is grieving, following a deadly car accident involving three high school students.

Seventeen year old Daniel Casias was in the backseat of a car when it went off Candies Creek Ridge Road Thursday afternoon.

Investigators are still trying to figure out what caused the crash that killed Daniel Casias. This comes as his family mourns his loss - we're told that his younger brother is the one who found him. Family members say Daniel loved fishing and loved big cars and now they're trying to figure out how to move forward without him.

This ambulance responds to a deadly wreck on Candies Creek Ridge Road yesterday afternoon. Investigators tell us both Brandon Vest, the driver,

and his front-seat passenger, Jean Croft, received treatment and were released from the hospital, but they tell us that 17 year old Daniel Casius died when the car plowed through this fence.

"I heard the sirens and then everybody on the planet seemed to be calling here to see what happened and then when I found out it was Daniel it was just absolutely crushing," Gary Pederson, a family friend, says.

A crushing reality that's still setting in for Gary Pederson. He owns B&B marina where Daniel's mom and sister once worked and

where Pederson says Daniel loved to fish and help out whenever he could.

"He was a bright, compassionate, caring, seventeen year old," Pederson says.

Just down the road Walker Valley High School sits silent today. That's where Daniel attended school and where Principal Danny Coggin says he developed a love for technology.

"It's something that they don't teach you in principal school, it hits here rather than here, so it's one of those things that we have to deal with I'd rather not have to, but that's the way life is," Coggin says.

Coggin says they're trying to keep things as normal as possible on campus while attending to all of Daniel's friends needs.

"They're fragile, they maybe sixteen or seventeen years old but there hearts are still fragile, so what we've done is have counselors come in from other schools and be apart of our program today," Coggin says.

And Pederson's working to keep his mind off things as well, but hopes that everyone remembers Daniel's compassion for other people.

"He was a good kid and just something like that shouldn't happen to good kids," Pederson says.

Walker Valley High School will play their first home football game tonight at 7:30 and they plan to hold a moment of silence in honor of Daniel Casius.

Family members also tell us that his funeral will be held at the Ralph Buckner Funeral Home. Visitation for friends and family is Monday night from three until eight. His funeral service will be Tuesday at eleven with his burial at Center Point Baptist Church.