A teenager has been sentenced to juvenile confinement for a crash that killed three children and their grandmother in Osceola County in September 2023.

Richard Ferguson, 68, appeared in court Friday morning for a status hearing, with his case remaining on the trial docket scheduled for the 27th.

His son's attorney said the teen pleaded no contest to four counts of vehicular homicide, five counts of driving without a license, causing serious bodily injury, and one count of reckless driving causing serious bodily injury.

The teenager was barely 15 when he ran a two-way stop at San Miguel Road and Laurel Avenue, crashing into a vehicle and killing three children and their grandmother.

WESH 2 has covered several stories with the children's mother and the daughter of their grandmother.

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