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CHESTER, Calif. - A Northern California mother is mourning the loss of her son and daughter in separate weekend tragedies, after her son died in the hospital this morning.
Christina Chavira, a spokeswoman for Enloe Medical Center in Chico, says 20-year-old Billy Carrigan died from injuries suffered in a weekend vehicle accident.
Billy Carrigan had been driving home to the far Northern California town of Chester on Sunday after he learned of his sister's death earlier that day.
An official at Berkeley City College confirmed Tuesday afternoon that Carrigan was enrolled at the junior college. The official declined to release further information.
It had been initially reported that Billy Carrigan was a UC Berkeley student, but university spokeswoman Marie Felde said he had never been a student there.
Just outside town, he crashed his Toyota Tacoma pickup truck into pine trees along Highway 36. He had been in the hospital in critical condition until he died today.
Carrigan's sister, Jennifer, had been found dead Sunday afternoon by their mother inside the family home in Chester, about 150 miles north of Sacramento. Jennifer Carrigan had been killed along with her date, Steven Furtado of Willows.
Both were 18 and had gone together to the Chester High School prom on Saturday night.
Plumas County sheriff's deputies arrested 18-year-old Reyes Carrillo in the teens' deaths. Patrol Commander Gerry Hendrick says Carrillo had previously
Carrillo's arraignment was set for today but was delayed.
