Two family friends confirmed the victims’ identities to CBC Toronto. They are 19-year-old Tirzah, 17-year-old Judah and 15-year-old Pharaoh Blackman-Lall. A fundraiser set up for their family has raised $12,000 since it was set up Monday morning. The teenagers died when the Honda Civic they were traveling in struck a tree and caught fire near the corner of Conestoga Drive and Elmvale Avenue around 2 a.m. Saturday. The vehicle quickly “went up in flames,” according to police. All three were pronounced dead at the scene. Police have not released any further information about the brothers.
“An amazing young man”
Tarek Sabry, the coach and executive director of the International Soccer Club, where Pharoah Blackman Lall played. He described the boy as a polite, kind and disciplined child who was very funny and very sarcastic. “It was a very difficult weekend for all of us,” Sabry said. He says the club has put together its own fundraiser for his family and suspended all football activities for the rest of the week. “Such an amazing young man, it’s a great loss.” Doug Gilson, who lives near the crash site, says he heard crashing sounds quickly followed by sirens early Saturday morning. By the time he got outside, he says he saw firefighters tending to a vehicle engulfed in flames. People visit a makeshift memorial at the scene in Brampton where three brothers aged 15, 17 and 19 died in a fiery car crash on Saturday morning. (Keith Burgess/CBC) “They got here very quickly,” Wilson said “They put in as much water as they could and it didn’t do any good.” The police investigation is ongoing and there is no information as to why the accident occurred. But Gilson says it can be difficult for drivers to know what the speed limit is in his neighborhood, and there is a lot of speeding in the area. “This is a 50km area. But the sad thing is there’s only one sign that tells you that and it’s facing north and it’s down near the traffic light,” Gilson said. “There isn’t one for the way that car was going.”
