A DeSoto teenager has died and his two high school friends were injured in a one-vehicle crash Wednesday afternoon.
It happened about 1:30 p.m. on U.S. Highway 84 at Natural Gas Road, which is east of Logansport.
The crash claimed the life of 15-year-old Seth Sloan, of Mansfield, who was the front seat passenger in the vehicle. He was not restrained and was pronounced dead at the scene.
The other two occupants — one the 17-year-old driver — were taken to Ochsner LSU Health hospital in Shreveport for treatment of what’s described as minor injuries.
State police said the driver, who was wearing a seat belt, lost control of his 2012 Dodge Challenger, ran off the road and hit a concrete retaining wall.
The other passenger was in the rear seat He also was wearing a seat belt.
The three teens are members of the newly organized football team at Central School, a private school in Grand Cane.
The school in a social media post asked for prayers for the teens’ families and also asked everyone to remember the Calvary Baptist Academy family in the drowning death of one of their students.