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In Memoriam

Joe Amoury


A Lancer out of sight
Never out of mind

It is with deepest regrets, that we must inform all R.E. Lee High School Alumni and the Class of 2006 that Joseph Amoury was killed in a vehicle collision on May 31, 2007. 


I-64 crash kills 3 college students
Three college students from Virginia were killed in a three-vehicle accident on Interstate 64 near the Sandstone/Hinton exit.

A Hinton man also was injured in the collision.

Summers County emergency officials said the accident occurred about 6:52 p.m. Thursday and involved a tractor-trailer, an SUV and a midsize passenger car.

State Police Cpl. G.J. Reed of the Hinton detachment said the driver of the tractor-trailer, 49-year-old Ruben Fuentes of Powhatan, Va., was traveling west toward Beckley when he lost control of his tractor-trailer. It crossed the median and collided with an eastbound vehicle, a Volkswagen driven by 19-year-old Cayce Castelow of Norfolk, Va.

Castelow was killed along with her two passengers, 18-year-old Benjamin Hutson of Norfolk and 18-year-old Joseph Amoury of Springfield, Va.

The students had just finished their freshman year at Virginia Commonwealth University, police said. They had attended a concert in Lexington, Ky., and planned to stop for the night in Richmond Thursday before heading back home today.

"(Their) vehicle went under the tractor-trailer, killing all three people inside," Reed said.

Reed said it was raining at the time of the accident.

He said the tractor-trailer continued to skid in the eastbound lanes until it struck another vehicle, a Subaru Forester station wagon driven by Andrei Kharisov, 45, of Hinton. Kharisov’s 10-year-old son was a passenger in the vehicle, Reed said. Both of them were transported to Raleigh General Hospital, treated and released.

Fuentes, the driver off the tractor-trailer, also was taken to Raleigh General, treated for minor injuries and released.

Reed said an accident reconstruction team was on the scene this afternoon and the investigation is ongoing. He could not say if any charges will be filed.

"It looks like from eyewitnesses that the truck was not traveling recklessly or even at a high rate of speed," Reed said. "It looks like he was traveling on wet pavement and just went into a slide."

The accident forced officials to close the eastbound lanes of the interstate well into Thursday evening. Traffic at first was stopped just west of the I-64 bridge that crosses the New River, then was stopped at the top of Sandstone Mountain.

The Sandstone Volunteer Fire Department and Summers County EMS also responded to the scene.