Crash victims remembered by peers

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) - Two local Catholic schools put their competitive spirits aside Wednesday evening at a girls basketball game.

Chaminade Julienne hosted Carroll High, but the game about more than winning. Student fans wore white to honor three students whose lives were tragically cut short.

It's not as easy to distinguish home-team fans from those visiting fans as Chaminade Julienne goes head to head against Carroll.

Student fans from both schools traded in their traditional colors for white.

"Its just a good color of solidarity. Carroll is red and blue and we are green and blue and we both have white as our side colors so its a good color to bring us together," said Adrianne Marx, Senior at C.J.

The two schools are uniting in honor of three young people who's lives were cut short.

In November, 20-year-old Christina Jackson and 18-year-old Corey Cooper were killed in a car accident. Cooper was a senior at Carroll and Jackson, a graduate.

Two months later, tragedy struck again when former Carroll student Chris Weitz died unexpectedly. He was 19 years-old.

"It was nice to know somebody was branching out in some way to show that they are here for us since we've had so many loses that people still care," said Marcus Raiff, Senior at Carroll.

A prayer was recited for the victims followed by a moment of silence and then reflection on three lives lost.