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Days Before Planned Wedding, Crash Victim Laid To Rest

Funeral Held For Louis Young, 1 Of 4 People Killed In South Beaver

POSTED: 10:27 am EDT October 28, 2009
UPDATED: 4:42 pm EDT October 28, 2009

Family and friends of Louis Young expected to be celebrating the 23-year-old's wedding on Saturday.

Louis Young IV

Instead, they went to a funeral on Wednesday morning for the man who was one of four people killed in a South Beaver Township car crash over the weekend.

Police said Young was traveling with 22-year-old Joshua Tate and 23-year-old Bryan Atkinson, who were celebrating Young's bachelor party, when their vehicle collided with a pickup truck at routes 51 and 168.

All three men died in the crash. Also killed was Jessica DeMarco, a passenger in the pickup truck. DeMarco's husband, Daniel, was critically injured.

Funeral services for Young were held at Murphy's Funeral Home on Adams Street in Rochester, following a morning visitation.

State police reconstructed the crash scene and are waiting on results of toxicology tests as they continue to investigate the cause of the fatal wreck.