One teen is dead, two other teens are in custody and possibly two others are missing, after a car that was stolen overnight in Boynton Beach crashed into a canal in Martin County, authorities said.
The Martin County Sheriff’s Office said possibly five people were in the vehicle when it crashed early Tuesday morning in the area of Southwest Kanner Highway and Southeast Cove Road.
During a news conference, Martin County Sheriff William Snyder said deputies were first alerted to the stolen vehicle at 12:39 a.m. on High Meadows Avenue in Palm City.
Snyder said deputies on the ground did not pursue the car, a late-model Mazda sedan, but their helicopter followed the vehicle. The sheriff said the car was traveling at a high rate of speed and didn’t have its lights on as it navigated multiple streets through the county.
“Through this entire incident, there were no police blue or red lights activated,” Snyder said. “We were following that vehicle from the air. … That car could not have known that aviation was overhead.”