Teen killed, another injured in South Jersey crash

HAMILTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (FOX 29) - A teen was killed and another was injured in a crash on the Black Horse Pike in Hamilton Township. Now, a South Jersey community is remembering 16-year-old Lakhi Gibbs who loved ones say had a bright future.

"Everyone here knew he was a good guy. He made everyone laugh. He was more about everyone else, not him. He cared," his cousin Richard Borsani said.

Police say it was just before 10 p.m. Monday when an 18-year-old was at the wheel of a Toyota two-door with Lakhi, a high school sophomore in the back. They'd been to the movies with their girlfriend and dropped them off. They were heading home, according to his family.

Investigators believe the driver lost control of the car just before the entrance to the Route 50 on-ramp.

"A wheel came off the boy's car and he hit a fence. The back-end of the car broke up and the wires came down and burned the car.," Gibbs grandmother, Denna Sykes, said.

In the Atlantic County Community of Newtonville, the extended family and friends of Gibbs gathered on a warm spring day to mourn the young man who lost his mother 4 years ago. His grandmother raised him.

"I've had him since he was 11 years old and we've been together--been to Houston to Maine--we've gone on lots of trips together," Sykes said.

Police report the investigation of the fatal crash is ongoing.