Teens Slain On Prom Date
Pastor Dale Morgan
Teens Slain On Prom Date*
Suspect Once Dated Woman, Police Say
POSTED: 5:54 am PDT May 12, 2008
UPDATED: 4:34 pm PDT May 12, 2008
CHESTER, Calif. -- A young man and woman bound for a high school prom
were slain over the weekend, and a man who once dated the woman is
accused of the killings, police said.
Jennifer Carrigan and Steven Daniel Furtado, both 18, were found dead
Sunday by Carrigan's mother at a house in Chester.
Deputies arrested 18-year-old Reyes Carillo in the deaths of the two
teens, said Plumas County Sheriff's Patrol Commander Gerry Hendrick. He
said Carillo previously dated Carrigan.
Furtado was set to graduate on June 6 from Willows High School.
Two rural towns were reeling Monday after the discovery. Chester has a
population of about 2,000, and there are about 6,000 people living in
the Glenn County town of Willows.
When told of his sister's death, 20-year-old Billy Carrigan headed home
from Berkeley.
Shortly before 7 p.m. Sunday, just before he reached Chester, Billy
Carrigan crashed his Toyota Tacoma pickup truck into a stand of pine
trees along Highway 36.
A spokeswoman at Enloe Medical Center in Chico said he was in critical
condition Monday.
It was not immediately clear how Jennifer Carrigan, a senior at Chester
High School, and her prom date died.
Autopsies were scheduled for Tuesday at the Washoe County Medical
Examiner's Office in Nevada.
Police are calling the case a homicide.
The Glenn County Sheriff's Department said Furtado had traveled from
Willows, where he was a high school senior, to Chester to take Carrigan
to her senior prom.
Officials delivered the news of Furtado's death to his family on Sunday
evening as relatives were in the process of having a Mother's Day
celebration at home.
Counseling was set to be offered to Willows High School students in the
wake of Furtado's death.