GRANDVIEW -- The 17-year-old driver in last week's crash that killed two of his schoolmates still is in critical condition.
Jovannie Razo remains at Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Richland, where he was taken after the Jan. 8 crash on Evans Road.
Investigators suspect Razo, a Grandview High School student, was speeding in his Dodge Neon when he crashed into trees near a bend in the rural road north of Grandview.
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GRANDVIEW -- A Grandview man died Saturday when his car left the road and struck a tree on Olmstead Road in Grandview about 3 p.m., the Washington State Patrol reported.
Raul Alcaras, 28, was eastbound on Olmstead in a black 2004 Dodge Neon when the crash occurred, the state patrol said.
He was wearing his seat belt and died at the scene.
GRANDVIEW -- The Grandview Girls Basketball Booster Club will host a fundraiser for the three families whose sons were involved in Tuesday's deadly car crash.
The booster club will donate all money raised during a halftime 3-point shooting contest and pass buckets around the gymnasium during Friday's CWAC game against East Valley High of Moxee. The game starts at 5:45 p.m. at Grandview High.
"I have a daughter who is a junior and I saw how upset she was," said Ray Shafer, booster club treasurer. "I kind of sat back and thought what if it was me? Nobody is really ready for anything like this to happen.
GRANDVIEW -- Demetrio Castaneda was one of dozens to visit where his 16-year-old friend Carlos Ochoa died Tuesday night.
Cars full of mourners stretched along Evans Road north of Grandview on Wednesday as people from throughout the community came by to see where Carlos and fellow student Kevin Lopez-Gonzales were killed in a car wreck Tuesday night.
Flowers were set at the base of one of the trees at the site, which was littered with latex gloves from emergency responders and contents from the car.
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