Investigation continues into crash that killed 4 Yale students

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT - State police, federal transportation officials and a fraternity&#39;s national officers on Saturday investigated a car crash that killed four Yale students and injured five others. <br> <br> Most of the victims were members of the Bulldog football or baseball teams. <br> <br> Three students sophomore Kyle Burnat, 19, of Atlanta; junior Sean Fenton, 20, of Newport Beach, Calif.; and sophomore Andrew Dwyer, 19, of Hobe Sound, Fla. all died Friday from severe head injuries, the state medical examiner&#39;s office said Saturday. <br> <br> A fourth student, sophomore Nicholas G. Grass, 19, of Holyoke, Mass., died Saturday afternoon at St. Vincent&#39;s Medical Center in Bridgeport, hospital spokeswoman Lucinda Ames said. <br> <br> Burnat, a sophomore and pitcher on the Yale baseball team, attended Woodward Academy in College Park, Ga. He was a summer intern for U.S. Sen. Zell Miller and a star on the senator&#39;s softball team. <br> <br> ``Kyle was a very, very special child,&#39;&#39; said his father, Lawrence Burnat. ``He excelled in everything that he did and always exceeded his parents&#39; expectations&#39;&#39; <br> <br> There was little visible reaction to the tragedy on campus Saturday. The U.S. flag on the campus&#39; main flagpole was lowered to half-staff. Home athletic events resumed after a daylong hiatus in memory of the killed and injured students. <br> <br> A memorial service was held Friday night at Yale&#39;s gymnasium, where the Yale and Brown men&#39;s basketball teams were scheduled to play Saturday evening. <br> <br> The nine students were crowded into a sport utility vehicle and were returning from a Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity event in New York at about 5 a.m. on Interstate 95 in Fairfield when the SUV hit a jackknifed tractor-trailer.

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