15-year-old with a suicide note scrawled on his arm stole parents' car and caused devastating head-on crash
- Srijan Saha veered into oncoming traffic early on Tuesday in Edison, NJ
- He smashed into another car, killing himself and 46-year-old Mohammed Zia and 36-year-old Ali Behzad, who were driving to pick up coffee
- Law enforcement sources said he had a suicide note on his arm - but would not say what it said or speculate why he wanted to kill himself
PUBLISHED: 09:38 EST, 17 October 2013 | UPDATED: 11:23 EST, 17 October 2013
A 15-year-old boy who killed himself and two innocent men in a wrong-way car crash had written a suicide note on his arm, police sources have said.
Srijan Saha took his parents' 1995 Honda Civic without permission early on Tuesday and drove the wrong way on Route 27 North in Edison, New Jersey, striking a 2011 Nissan Altima head-on.
The high-speed smash killed Saha and the other car's occupants, 46-year-old Mohammed Zia and 36-year-old Ali Behzad, who had gone out to pick up coffee just a few blocks from their home.
While police and friends have not indicated why Saha wanted to kill himself, law enforcement sources told the New Jersey Star-Ledger he had written a note on his arm, but did not reveal what it said.
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'Suicide': Srijan Saha, pictured, died after
smashing his parents' car head-on with another vehicle on Tuesday
morning. He had written a suicide note on his arm, law enforcement
sources said
Acting Middlesex Prosecutor Andrew Carey has confirmed that the crash is being investigated as a 'suicide-homicide'.
Witnesses said the Honda had veered into oncoming traffic and collided with the car driven by Zia. Saha and Behzad were pronounced dead at the scene, and Zia died at hospital a short time later.
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'They went to go get coffee, and after that they just never came back,' nephew Moazzam Zia told CBS2 as he visited the crash site on Tuesday.
Victims: Ali Behzad, left, and Mohammed Zia, right, were going for coffee when they were hit and killed
Scene: A car is towed away from the scene early on Tuesday after the deadly crash in Edison, New Jersey
Collision: Police said they are investigating the fatal crash as a 'suicide homicide'
'I'm holding myself up right now. God took the biggest part of our family away today... two of them at once.'
Saha, who loved rap music and luxury cars according to his Facebook page, was remembered with a moment of silence in classrooms at John P. Stevens High School in Edison on Wednesday.
Friends remembered Saha, a sophomore at the high school, as a talented artist.
'The district's prayers are with the late student's family, friends, students, staff, and community, during this very difficult time of extreme sorrow and grief,' the school’s superintendent, Richard O'Malley, told the Star-Ledger.
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