A San Diego family is in mourning, remembering the 19-year-old killed in Monday night's multi-car crash on Interstate 8 in Grantville .

The family of De'Veonte Morris joined in a prayer circle outside their San Carlos home to help them cope with his death.

"He was just my rock,” Annesha Meekie, Morris' mother, told NBC 7. “I don't even know how I can even live or think or eat or drink or sleep without him."

The 19-year-old's car flipped over Monday night in a two-vehicle crash on eastbound I-8, near Fairmount Avenue. La Mesa police Officer Lauren Craven , 25, was killed by an oncoming car while responding to the wreck.

“I’m very thankful for that officer, and I'm sorry. My condolences," Morris' mother said.

His family says as the California Highway Patrol investigates, their heart

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