Basketball tournament to honor Cape teens killed in wrong-way crash

BARNSTABLE, Mass. — It’s been several months since three teens from Cape Cod were killed during a wrong way crash on Route 495, and the loss is still weighing heavily on the community.

Jordan Fisher not only played basketball for his high school team, but lived and breathed the game.

"Meant everything to him.  It was his main thing. Basketball, basketball,” said his father, Rodney Fisher.

His bedroom is a hoops shrine, with posters, signed basketballs, a closet full of high tops and a basket above the bed.

"That was his heart - that was his heart.  We're real proud of him, all of them boys were such good kids.  Really, really good kids,” said Rodney.

Fisher will be honored with a memorial basketball tournament next Saturday on the Cape.

Four boys total were killed in the crash, three of them childhood friends from the Cape.

"They were always together, you know, hoping they're together now,” said Rodney.

Police say the wrong-way driver 31-year-old Valantein Burson, who also died, was drunk, had smoked marijuana  and her headlights were off when she turned around on the highway  and drove head-on into their car.

"I don't know what was on that woman's mind. We just don't know,” said Rodney.

He and another victim’s father, Kip Diggs, have many questions they know will never be answered.

"Someone else is missing her, too.  So there's a no-win situation there.  I wish society could've helped her so she didn't do the unthinkable,” said Kip, father of Kraig Diggs.

Kip is hurting but says faith keeps him going.

"I'll get a big hug from my son at some point, it just won't be tomorrow,” he said.

Kraig Diggs was an athlete in Barnstable and there are plans to retire Jordan Fisher's #23 at nearby Monomoy High School.

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