Coroner IDs 8-year-old boy killed in wrong-way crash on I-15
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified an 8-year-old boy from Georgia who was killed Monday night in a wrong-way crash northeast of the Las Vegas Valley.
He was Chase Fernandez of Lawrenceville, Georgia, the coroner’s office said. Also killed in the crash was 19-year-old Javarius Barfield of Lawrenceville.
The Monday night crash involved a driver traveling in a northbound lane of Interstate 15 about 12 miles south of Moapa, Nevada Highway Patrol spokesman Travis Smaka said Tuesday.
More details on the circumstances of the crash and the number of vehicles involved had not been released as of Wednesday morning. Investigators suspect impairment was a factor, Smaka said.
Both Chase and Barfield died at the scene from multiple blunt force trauma, the coroner’s office said. Their deaths were ruled accidental.
The boys’ great-uncle and great-aunt Charles and Jennifer Ferguson wrote in a message to the Las Vegas Review-Journal that Fernandez and Barfield were brothers and both were honors students.
”Javarius just completed his freshman year of college looking forward to his sophomore year,” the couple wrote.
Contact Katelyn Newberg at knewberg@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0240. Follow @k_newberg on Twitter. Review-Journal reporter Sabrina Schnur contributed to this report.