The three teenagers killed in a single-vehicle crash in Brimfield early Sunday morning have been identified.
Vincent “Vinnie” Ardizzoni, 17, Shane Douglas, 18, and Dominick “Dom” Gardner, 17, were all killed in the crash, according to a GoFundMe.
“We are going to be so incredibly lost with out these boys,” the GoFundMe reads. “Fly high and everyone please tell your family you love them and drive safe.”
A 17-year-old Brookfield boy, who was not named, was also in the car but left the scene before police arrived and went to Harrington Hospital on his own with serious injuries, authorities said.
Massachusetts State Police are still investigating the crash.
At approximately 12:50 a.m. Sunday, Massachusetts State Police responded to the area of 40 East Brimfield-Holland Road after receiving reports of a crash, according to a spokesman. Troopers said they found a 2006 Nissan Sentra that had gone off the road and rolled over about 40 feet into the wood line.
A separate GoFundMe for Gardner said he had just turned 17 and that he had been living with his sister for the past year.
“She found out by the knock on the door no one wants to answer,” it reads. “She cannot afford to do much, as she has three kids and took him in when he had nowhere else to live.”
It said he loved playing “video games, enjoying time with his family and being an uncle.”
“He was so polite and kind,” the GoFundMe reads. “17 is way too young, and his sisters and our families would love to be able to give him a memorial we feel is deserved.”
Nakkia Gardner also shared memories about her brother on Facebook.
“I wish I could have told it to him how much a little brother really had an impact on your life,” she wrote. “I love you bud more than you knew.”
She also said she hopes to have a “spot for people to be able to sit on the bad days” and talk to him.
“He was a good soul with a positive attitude,” she wrote. “No matter what the world threw at us growing up, he was the one that really [taught] me how to stay strong and keep pushing.”
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