Young Man from Georgia found unresponsive

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Prayers for the Newell family.

http://www.fox44abc22yourvoice.com/story/21324513/young-man-found-unresponsive-at-park-ride-in-st-albans-vt-sunday

[Henry]

Suspected carbonmonoxide poisoning

[Henry]

St. Albans police say carbon monoxide poisoning is believed responsible for the death of a 17-year-old boy who was found unresponsive in a car at a park and ride lot on Sunday.

A public candlelit vigil in memory of Logan Newell, 17, of Georgia is planned for 7 p.m. Tuesday at Taylor Park in St. Albans, said Jenna Kemp, a paraeducator at Northwest Technical Center where Newell took classes.

Police Chief Gary Taylor said tests run on the car Monday showed “two substantial leaks” in the exhaust system of the 2002 Volkswagen Jetta. He said with help from the Vermont Motor Vehicle Department, investigators determined exhaust fumes were venting into the passenger area.

Taylor said final toxicology test results won’t be known for a few weeks, but investigators, along with medical personnel, believe there is sufficient evidence that Newell died from the carbon monoxide.

“It is a real tragic, unfortunate accident,” Taylor said.

Newell was a student at Bellows Free Academy in St. Albans, Taylor said. BFA officials did not return a call for comment. The school is closed this week for winter break.

Newell was dropped at the lot on Vermont 104 and Vermont 36 by a friend after a day of snowboarding, the chief said. The belief is Newell was allowing the car to warm up when he was overcome, Taylor said.

The chief outlined the following sequence:

Police received a call at 5:42 p.m. from a 22-year-old man who said he saw the teen in a car, slumped forward over the steering wheel. The man rapped on the driver’s window to try rousing the boy inside the car. When that didn’t work, the concerned man, who police declined to identify, called 911.

A St. Albans police officer arrived and couldn’t rouse the teen either. The officer smashed the front passenger-side window to get inside the locked car. Newell was not breathing and had no detectable pulse.

An ambulance arrived and crew members began resuscitation efforts as they took Newell to the Northwest Medical Center, which is around the corner from the lot.

Newell was later pronounced dead. The car is registered to his mother, police said.

As of late Monday morning, Taylor said his department was holding the vehicle and was obtaining a search warrant to examine it. A search warrant is required before police can examine the vehicle, and obtaining the document did not necessarily mean police are investigating a crime, Taylor said.

No evidence of foul play was detected at the scene, police said. There were no obvious signs of injury, Taylor said. Newell’s body was brought to a medical examiner in Burlington to conduct an autopsy, the chief said.

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the government is going to start making us put c.o. detectors in our cars now

[Henry]

Logan "Pog" J. Newell

Georgia – Logan “Pog” J. Newell, a lifelong resident of this area passed away unexpectedly Sunday February 24, 2013, at the Northwestern Medical Center.
Born in St. Albans on February 21, 1996, he was the son of Larry “Bug” Newell and Heidi Hughes. Logan was 17 years old.

Logan was a Junior at Bellows Free Academy in St. Albans, a Junior Cadet with the Georgia Volunteer Fire Department and a member of “Vermods”. He loved to fish, hunt, attend truck and tractor pulls and tinkering with “VDUBS”. Logan was always on the go with his friends and always enjoyed a volleyball game at “Pop’s”.

Survivors include his parents, Larry and Heidi; his brother and best friend, Ryan, and his girlfriend, Carita; his sister, Amber Newell; his “Gram”, Marilyn Letourneau and her companion, John Flood; his “Pops”, William Richards and his “Grammie”, Virginia Richards. Logan is also survived by his aunts and uncles, Debbie and Doug Grevatt and their daughter, Fallyn; Brian and Lisa Hayden and Haley Adams and her companion, Jason “Jaybird” Pollard; his special cousin, Nick; his cousins, Travis and Ashley Johnston and their 3 boys, and Johnny Farr and his special friends, Jordan, Colby, “Big”, Chris, Josh, “Uncle Buck” and Katie; his canine companion and “Sleeping Buddy” Jake and many friends.

Logan was preceded in death by his aunt, Laurie Newell and his great-grandparents.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend calling hours on Thursday, February 28, 2013, from 4:00 to 8:00 PM at the Heald Funeral Home, 87 South Main Street, St. Albans.

A funeral service will be held on Friday, March 1st at 11:00 AM at the Georgia Fire Station, Ethan Allen Highway with Pastor Charles Kuthe, Chaplain of the Georgia Volunteer Fire Department officiating. Interment will be later this spring in the Georgia Plain Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorials in Logan’s name may be made to the Georgia Fire & Rescue Association, 4134 Ethan Allen Highway, Georgia, Vermont 05478. Private messages of condolence to Logan’s family are welcome at www.healdfuneralhome.com

[Henry]

Any of us who have children or grandchildren who drive a car have to feel very badly for the parents of this young man.  It sounds like this is not that easy of a problem to find and I would be interested in hearing from a mechanic who does State Inspections what method they use to see if a vehicle has a dangerous leaking exhaust, since you cannot smell or see it..