ATHENS, Ga. — Family and friends gathered at a DeKalb County high school to remember one of the University of Georgia students killed in a crash. They also prayed for the driver who survived the wreck in Oconee County.
Channel 2's Tyisha Fernandes spoke with UGA students studying journalism who knew the girls. Some said they were going to attend the Saturday night vigil in Dunwoody.
Scott's brother, William Scott, spoke at the Dunwoody High School vigil about seeing his sister just one day before the fatal crash.
"Even though she's not physically here. I feel her around me all the time now," Scott said. "She would be embarrassed if she knew all this attention was being brought to her."
Scott says his sister was humble, and the outpouring of support the family has been getting is a blessing.
Instead of raising candles for the vigil, Halley's family chose to use glowsticks. They prayed for her and the other three women who died in that car, and prayed for Agnes Kim, who's still in a coma at Athens Regional Medical Center.
UGA student Danielle Lewan was assigned to cover the tragic story of the four women killed in a car wreck, and a fifth still in a coma.
"It was tough," Lewan said.
Journalism student Matt Mataxas started covering the story the moment he heard about the fatal wreck around 9 p.m. Wednesday.
About five hours later, he went to a 2 a.m. prayer vigil at the Young Life Center near campus.
Mataxas said the emotion was overwhelming.
"There's people in the parking lot collapsing and crying, the sound of their sobs, I'll never forget that," Mataxas said.
Student producer Claudia Kelly-Bazan went to Dunwoody High School with crash victim Halle Scott two years ago.
"We cheered together," Bazan said.
Bazan was in the UGA newsroom when she heard her high school friend Halle Scott was one of the students killed in the Oconee County crash.
"I just kinda lost it, so I stepped out of the newsroom and I called my best friend from back home," Bazan said.
She pulled it together and covered the story the way she thought her friend would want her to.
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