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Theresa Caputo of Stuart, in black, hugs another woman Wednesday at the scene of a memorial that was built along Cove Road near Stuart. Caputo, a mother of three, said her children all knew and grew up with those killed. (DEBORAH SILVER/Treasure Coast Newspapers)

A few teenagers in board shorts and T-shirts lifted their sunglasses just long enough to wipe away their tears and hug one another in the grass along Cove Road Wednesday afternoon as they stood above a swelling memorial site.

Amid her tears, a mother bent down, reached through the letters, flowers and mementos and clutched a golf ball in her hand.

Angela Coady said she knew one of her son Nick’s friends had put it there intending for it to stay, but when she saw it she decided she had to take it with her.

“The last time I saw him he was going to play golf. He was happy as a lark,” she said. “The next time I saw him, he was dead.”

Nick Coady, 18, and his friends — Christopher Harold Briglio, 18, and Connor William Graver, 16, — were all killed early Tuesday when the Jeep Grand Cherokee that Coady was driving slammed into the back of a John Deere truck and overturned.

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INDIANTOWN — State investigators have searched the home of a former Martin County Sheriff’s lieutenant and are now waiting on DNA test results to determine whether the remains of a pet deer reported stolen last year were buried in his yard.

Baby, the 9-year-old whitetail buck reported missing.

Weeks later, a criminal investigation led officials to a home at Fox Brown Road where, court records indicate, then-sheriff’s Lt. James Fogleman, 52, and his 22-year-old son, James Dylan Fogleman, reside.

Now officials are waiting to see whether deer remains found at the Foglemans’ home and at a second location are those of the missing deer, Baby. (more…)