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About 150 people gathered at West High School on Friday night to honor students who were killed Thursday in a downtown Salt Lake City car crash.

The students, identified by police Friday as 17-year-old Vidal Pacheco and 18-year-old Dylan Hernandez, were passengers in a car driven by a third teen who was also a student.

Students and community members with tears glistening in their eyes held candles as they heard two stories about the boys. One girl, Belen, mentioned that the shy, sweet Hernandez would help her with math year after year and buy her food when she would "sluff" class with him. He would share raps he'd written with her, but she said they sounded more like poetry.

Pacheco was outgoing and had an infectious smile, said MJ Powell, a senior involved in student government at the school. He would often joke around with classmates.

Both teens loved cars, classmates said, and had been best friends, hardly going anywhere without the other. Witnesses to the tragic crash told police the teens appeared to be racing another car on 300 West about 11:30 a.m. Thursday, said Salt Lake City police Detective Cody Lougy, reaching speeds in excess of 70 mph.

The teens' car jumped a landscaped island near 700 North and collided head-on with an SUV driven by a 32-year-old woman who was seven to eight months pregnant, Lougy said. She later gave birth at a hospital and both she and her baby were listed in serious condition. The teenage driver — also mentioned at Friday's vigil — was likewise in serious condition at a hospital.

Police said Friday that they had located another vehicle believed to have been racing with the other car.

Powell helped organize the vigils, where those gathered wrote messages on banners, quietly sang the school song and left behind flowers and balloons in memory of the teens. Powell also set up a fundraising page for the teens' families. The family of the woman injured in the crash has also set up a page for her.

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