Music filled a candlelit auditorium at St. John the Baptist High School on Monday night as more than 300 students, parents and community members prayed for the recovery of one of their own: a hospitalized 17-year-old senior who was behind the wheel of a 2025 Kia Seltos involved in a fatal collision Saturday morning. Vincent Albrecht, the principal at the school in West Islip, said he and the community are “hoping that tonight .
.. a miracle will happen and she will come back here to St.
John to graduate in June.” “Today we had guidance counselors available, extra priests available, we had our chapel open for prayer so that students could go in and pray throughout the day,” Albrecht said of the difficult school day. “Some of the students were supporting her by making these beautiful little bows .
.. They were giving these out to everybody, kind of a way to show support for her internally.
We’re doing a schoolwide dress down day tomorrow to raise funds for her family with all the medical expenses piling up.” Just after 1 a.m.
Saturday, Suffolk County police said Michael Desmond, 33, of Lindenhurst, drove a 2017 Kia sedan east on Railroad Avenue in West Babylon through a red light and collided with the Seltos traveling south on Great East Neck Road. Desmond was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Riley Goot, 18, of Babylon, one of the passengers in the Seltos, was pronounced dead at Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip, Suffolk police said.
Goo.