(Memphis) Plans are in the works for a candle light vigil for a 19-year-old killed in a car accident. Shakerri Dupree was killed in a car crash Saturday.
Police say she and five others were leaving a bar on Jackson Avenue when it happened.
The driver took off after the wreck.
Some people say they believe both the driver and the bar should be held accountable.
Teddy bears and flowers are accumulating at the site where Dupree lost her life on North Watkins.
While police are still searching for the driver who crashed his car there, some are wondering why teenagers were leaving a bar in the first place.
“We don’t know if anybody in the car was drinking. We just know that they went to the bar and after that we got a phone call that our cousin was dead,” said Dominque McRae.
Two 20-year-olds are still in the ICU.
The car full people were allegedly driven from a club Saturday morning by a man who crashed and ran away.
The club called “Our Bar” has a handwritten sign on its door reading “25 years and older,” but teenagers tell WREG they’ve drank alcohol there before.
“I think there should be an investigation as to why you let somebody who was underage drink and once they leave there, people are in the ICU and one is dead,” said McRae.
Because the driver hasn’t been questioned, police don’t know for sure he’d been drinking but survivors of the crash are telling others that the driver was acting crazy.
“Because he said he was driving and (beep) talking and he was laughing and they were telling him to stop,” said Keshundra Dupree, the victim’s sister. “He wouldn’t stop.”
WREG went by the bar to ask questions. It was closed.
WREG tracked the owner to an address near Bartlett, but he wasn’t home.
The State tells us the club doesn’t have a liquor license.
“I feel like some of the girls were in the car drunk,” said Dupree. “Some of them that survived, I feel like they were drunk.”
While Dupree’s sister is disturbed the teens might have been drinking, Keshundra says she’s more concerned the driver, who injured four people and killed her sister, still hasn’t been caught.
“We still want justice,” said Lameka Johnson, the victim’s cousin. “We still do not have the driver in custody and we still don’t have the full story.”
Friends and family are gathering at the North Watkins crash site Wednesday night at 6:30 p.m. for candlelight visual for Shakerri Dupree and to also to collect donations for the 1-year-old daughter she leaves behind.
