Billie Eilish expresses grief after two teens die in massive crash on way to singer’s concert

Two Missouri teens headed to a Billie Eilish concert were killed — and the singer suffered a “heartbreaking” tragedy — as a police chase with an alleged kidnapper led to massive highway gatherings. .

Cole Cunningham and Lucy Yates, both 18, died and Yates’ twin sister, Aubrey Yates, was fatally injured in the wreck around 7:30 p.m. on Interstate 29 near Iowa, as authorities searched for an alleged kidnapper and Had chased a 1 year old child. According to reports, in the car.

Police first received a call about the suspect Sunday morning from a woman who claimed the man assaulted her in a domestic incident and took her child away in Nebraska. According to the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office in the Hawkeye State.

She claimed that the man was both suicidal and homicidal.

The sheriff’s office said officers spotted the suspect’s speeding 2023 Kia Sorento and began pursuing it as the SUV headed southbound against traffic in the left lane. While most police cars were driving on the right side of the highway, a sheriff’s cruiser was also driving against traffic to track the alleged criminal.

After the suspect was driving the wrong way in Missouri, he hit a 2013 Ford Focus that was carrying three teenagers in the path of Eilish, KMBC reported.

That crash caused a 2024 Volvo semi-truck to swerve to avoid the crash, but hit the deputy who was chasing the alleged hijacker, law enforcement said.

The suspect, who has not been identified, also died in the multi-vehicle crash, while a 1-year-old child was rescued from the burning SUV, the sheriff said.

Eilish, who was performing at Chicago’s United Center on the night of the crash, addressed the crash Tuesday in an Instagram post to raise money for the surviving victim.

“Sending lots of love to the families,” the Birds of a Feather singer wrote online. “So heartbreaking.”

The Yates family said in a statement that the “senseless” incident has left them “a hole that will never be filled.” According to the Kansas City Star.

Cunningham was remembered as a man who was fond of music and cared about his friends.

“He will be greatly missed,” his mother Shanila Cunningham wrote on social media, according to the newspaper. “Such an amazing person and I’m proud he’s my baby.”