Peninsula mourns high school student
Students paid tribute at PV High Jan. 25 to Sean Heffernan, 17, killed by a suspected drunk driver The Palos Verdes community lost an admired young man last month when 17-year-old Sean Heffernan, a PV High student was killed by a suspected drunk driver the night of Friday Jan 18. Heffernan was reportedly stepping into his car near Robert Ryan Park on Hawthorne Boulevard in front of three other friends when a vehicle driven by 55-year-old Ho Seok Suh, of Rancho Palos Verdes, careened into four parked cars, including Heffernan’s, and striking the high school senior. Suh, who reportedly failed a field sobriety test at the scene, was charged with vehicular manslaughter and posted $50,000 bail the next day. PV High Principal Nick Stephany said the school initiated its district crisis response team when students returned to school on Tuesday following the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Counselors offered private meetings, attended each of Sean’s classes and created a space in the courtyard to write messages and remember Sean throughout the week. On that Friday, about 1,000 students and teachers honored Sean with a memorial ceremony, Stephany said. “The kids are broken up over it,”…
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