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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Magruder Tragedy Reveals Lives Intertwined Online

Facebook and Twitter offer details of lives cut short and provide a place for friends to mourn.

On Friday, students from Col. Zadok Magruder High School in Rockville signed on to Twitter to make plans for the weekend.  It was one of the last weekends of high school for the Class of 2011. Students tweeted with friends about graduation, about television shows, movies and music and about parties. They traded one-liners and gossiped about classmates. Haeley McGuire, an 18-year-old Magruder senior, signed on and retweeted a message from a friend: @gnourtina by HaeleyMcG Count your blessings, not your problems. It was her final digital fingerprint on the online social network. On Sunday, McGuire was one of three young adults killed in an early morning car crash in Olney. The trio left a digital trail of their lives on social networks that …

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UPDATE: Magruder High Senior, Two Grads Killed in Crash, Prosecutor: Driver Attended Two Parties Before Fatal Wreck, and UPDATE: Funeral Details Released for Olney Crash Victims

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

UPDATE: Funeral Details Released for Olney Crash Victims

The first of three funerals will be held Wednesday at St. Francis of Assisi in Derwood.

Update, 8:45 p.m.: County police are advising drivers to avoid the area around St. Francis of Assisi, in Derwood during and around the hours of 10 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, when the church will host funeral services for Haeley McGuire. A large volume of traffic is expected and parking could overflow the church lot at 6701 Muncaster Mill Road into nearby parking lots and residential streets, police said in a news release. No road closures are planned at this time. County police will be present to assist with traffic flow. Original post, 6:40 p.m.: Magruder High School has posted funeral details for senior Haeley McGuire and Magruder alumni Spencer Datt and John Hoover on the school's Web site. Services for McGuire will be held on Wednesday…

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St. John the Baptist Catholic Church (in Silver Spring Patch) and UPDATE: Magruder High Senior, Two Grads Killed in Crash

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