Tributes are flowing for the two teenagers killed while driving a stolen vehicle in Melbourne’s south-east. One of the boys, 16-year-old Nicholas Crick, has been remembered in a tribute by the Kilsyth Football Club, where he was a junior player. A second car allegedly taken during the break-in is still missing.
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00:00Devastated friends mark the site where two teenagers were killed.
00:07In daylight, tributes and tears have flowed.
00:10The fatal crash site was discovered in the early hours of yesterday morning.
00:14Roeville resident Terry Skewthorpe lives nearby.
00:18Roeville is a nice, peaceful, quiet place and we're getting a little bit of crime in
00:23here now.
00:24Two cars were allegedly taken in a break and enter.
00:27One belonging to Mo Jaffer's sister was in the crash.
00:30His is still missing.
00:31It's never, for anyone, a nice feeling knowing someone's been in your house while you were
00:36asleep.
00:37And really, no one wins.
00:38You know, you've got the victims on all sides.
00:40He's been sent a video and photos of possible sightings of his car since.
00:45Nice to see the community kind of sending me updates and rallying behind.
00:48It's been spotted in a few different locations.
00:51The fatal crash is one of a series of recent incidents involving youths.
00:56Last night, two teenage boys were arrested in Melbourne's CBD after a vehicle was used
01:01to ram a police car.
01:03Police allegedly finding several machetes and knives in the car.
01:06And we're seeing continuously too many young people out on the roads driving at ridiculous
01:10speeds that is putting not just them at risk, as we've seen on the weekend, but the entire
01:15community at risk.
01:16But the Premier has defended her recent crackdown on youth crime.
01:20It demonstrates why it is so important.
01:22Because this repeat pattern of behaviour can be deadly.
01:26Here at the site of the crash, friends and loved ones of the two teenagers who died have
01:30left bouquets and written tribute messages on the tree, saying things like forever in
01:35our hearts, forever loved and forever young.
01:38Police say the 16-year-old who was driving was from the Knox area, but the passenger
01:43is yet to be formally identified.