The Tulalip community is mourning the deaths of four young people, including two teenagers, who drowned Tuesday morning when a pickup crashed into a roadside pond on the reservation.
The victims were identified Wednesday as Lynnishia Larson, 16, of Marysville; Tyson Walker, 21 of Tulalip; Ariela Vendiola, 15, of Marysville; and Dylan Monger, 22, of Tulalip. All drowned when the pickup veered off a bridge in the 7500 block of Totem Beach Road and landed in a Tulalip fisheries pond.
Randy Vendiola, the father of Ariela, said he had given his daughter $20 to go see “Straight Outta Compton” with her friends in Marysville on the night of the crash. Wednesday would have been her 16th birthday.
“There was a one in a million chance of rolling over in the only area where you can possibly drown in the stretch between here and where they saw the movie,” Vendiola said. “They’re so young. Here we are again.”
Larson and Vendiola were both due to start 11th grade at Marysville-Pilchuck High School. Their deaths come less than a year after the October shooting at the school when a 15-year-old freshman shot five other students, killing four, before taking his own life.
Monger and Walker had also been students in the Marysville School District, district spokesman Craig Degginger said.
“We are grieving today over the devastating loss of four young people, all current or former students in our district. We extend our support and sympathy to all of their families,” district Superintendent Becky Berg wrote in a statement. “This is yet another reminder of how fragile life is and how we must again bond together as a community.”
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