Loved
ones gathered Tuesday for a wake remembering 18-year-old Branden
Sierra – one of four teens who died in a car crash in Yonkers just days before
Christmas.
It was
held at St. Peter’s Church in Yonkers. He was killed along with fellow Saunders
High School graduates Randy Brisbane and Tamari Watkins and Riverside
High graduate Anthony Cruz.
The
group of friends was driving on Culver Street before an erratic driver,
36-year-old Devon Haywood,
pummeled into their vehicle at the
intersection with Riverdale Avenue, splitting the car in half. Haywood also
died later from the crash.
Sierra's funeral
will be held Wednesday at 10 a.m. at St. Peter’s-St. Denis Church on Ludlow
Street in Yonkers.
Sierra
will then be laid to rest at Mount Hope Cemetery.
More
than $100,000 has been raised for all four teens' funerals through separate
GoFundMe campaigns.