Jennifer Carrigan – Two teens brutally murdered on a prom date – Jennifer Carrigan and Steven Furtado – were stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend, Reyes Carrillo, and then her brother Billy Carrigan died in a car crash rushing home on Mothers Day after hearing the news.

Jennifer Carrigan murdered on prom date

The triple tragedy involving Jennifer Carrigan is the saddest Mothers Day imaginable because Jennifer’s mother is the one who found the bodies of her daughter and boyfriend on Mothers Day morning in her own home.

And then to lose her only other child, Billy Carrigan – a 20-year old junior at UC-Berkeley, in a tragic car accident while rushing home to comfort his mother is just horrific.

Jennifer Carrigan was set to graduate next month and planned to study medicine at Chico State University, specializing in anesthesiology. Jennifer was a popular student in the small town of Chester in northern California – a member of the girls softball team and the marching band.

She had met Steven Furtado at an honors band event in Sacramento two months ago and the young couple quickly fell in love. Jennifer broke up with fellow Chester High School senior Reyes Carrillo and spent as much time as she could with Steven, who lived over an hour away in the small town of Willows in mountainous Glenn County.

Steven Furtado was described as an All-American boy

Steven Furtado was a member of Willows High School honors band, a lineman for the Willows Honkers football team, a Little League umpire, and an Eagle Scout. He last played trumpet for the band during Saturday’s Lamb Derby Parade before heading to Chester for his fatal prom date.

Furtado was described as “an all-American boy” who always smiled, by his cousin, Glenn County sheriff’s deputy Brandy McDonald. “He was a wonderful, beautiful person,” she said. “He knew everybody. He was loved by everybody.”

The bodies of the teens, Jennifer Carmen Carrigan, 18, of Chester and Steven Daniel Furtado, 18, of Willows were found by the girl’s mother in the Carrigan home just after noon Sunday, according to Gerry Hendrick with the Plumas County Sheriff’s Office. Both had been stabbed multiple times.

News of the Mothers Day killings of Carrigan and Furtado spread quickly through Chester, a town of about 2,300, which is located about 150 miles north of Sacramento.

More than 100 young people and adults packed the Lake Almanor Community Church on Sunday evening to talk about the victims and to share memories. Jennifer Carrigan’s friends remembered her as a “very well-loved girl” with “happy eyes,” said Paul Bernard, the youth pastor, who helped organize the event and who also spent much of Monday counseling grief-stricken students at Chester High School.

Jennifer Carrigan’s mother then faced the hard decision Monday night of taking her critically injured son, Billy Victor Carrigan, 20, off of life support at a hospital in Chico, California.

The California Highway Patrol reported that Carrigan – hurrying home after receiving news of his sister’s death while at UC-Berkeley near San Francisco – was traveling east along a mountain road just before 7 p.m. at an unknown speed that was too fast for a sharp left curve marked at 30 mph.

He traveled off the roadway at the curve, became airborne off the embankment and crashed into several trees. After the single-car accident, Carrigan was airlifted to Enloe Medical Center in Chico, where he was placed on life support with massive internal injuries.

Jennifer Carrigan’s brother died Monday night, two days after her prom date and the day after Mothers Day.

Reyes Carrillo killed Jennifer Carrigan and Steven Furtado in a jealous rage

Four hours after the bodies were discovered, Plumas County deputies arrested Reyes Carrillo, an 18-year-old classmate of Jennifer Carrigan’s at Chester High School and her ex-boyfriend, authorities said. He was held on suspicion of two counts of homicide.

Carrillo is in custody at the Plumas County Jail and was arraigned in Superior Court Monday where bail was set at $1 million.

Autopsies were also conducted Monday on the two teens slain on their prom date.

And that’s the really sad story of the prom date murder of Jennifer Carrigan.

Tags: billy carrigan, jennifer carrigan, reyes carrillo, steven furtado, teens killed on prom date, triple tragedy

Related posts