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Monday, November 11, 2019

Never Deserved This: Grief After Toms River Airborne Crash - Patch.com

TOMS RIVER – They were always in pictures together, because it seems like they did so much with each other. And it was all the good stuff kids do, whether it was golf or Wiffle ball or skateboarding.

And as they grieved, the community tried to remember those tender moments, too, and how they scootered and biked together. How they made people laugh all the time. And no matter what it was, Braden and Dan were always nice to each other, and to everybody.

This is how the community was dealing with tragedy as more details were revealed following the horrific fatal crash in Toms River on Sunday, one in which Braden DeMartin's Porsche, with Daniel Foley as a passenger, went airborne into a building.

This was how they were dealing with the heartbreak, especially DeMartin's girlfriend, Kristen Aguiar, who said on Facebook that Braden was her "hip" since she was 17.

"This is gunna hurt for a while," she wrote. "Now he's just gone. He loved me so much. I had never trusted anyone with my life the way I did him... I have never felt this type of pain."

Aguiar told nj.com that Braden was "probably joyriding" and that she was supposed to go out with him on the night of the crash. "That was supposed to be me in that car," she said.

In tribute after tribute posted on Facebook, Braden and Dan are almost always together, smiling in their youth baseball Dodger uniforms or posing for what appears to be the prom.

"RIP Braden DeMartin and Dan Foley. Will never forget the days we spent on the golf course together. Always made everything more fun," one person wrote on Facebook.

"I'll never forget the Wiffle ball and wallball games back in the day," another person wrote. "Rest easy boys."

Braden DeMartin, 22, and Daniel Foley, 23, both of Toms River, were together when they died. Their car was traveling at a high rate of speed, struck an embankment and went into the second story of the building off Hooper Avenue, police said.

How could this happen?

"I remember when we used to scooter and bike at the incline club and had no problems or worries," another person wrote. "I never saw this coming."

Some even snapped back at people who made snide comments about the two and their involvement in the crash.

"Dan Foley, you where the nicest guys I've ever met," another person wrote. "I know you where a good guy and didn't deserve this. RIP to two guys that never deserved this."

DeMartin and Foley were pronounced dead at the horrible scene where the car apparently crossed lanes of traffic and landed in the building, police said. Read more: 2 Dead: Car Crashed In Second Story Of Toms River Building: PD

On Sunday morning, police units were dispatched to the scene and discovered that the car crashed into the EXIT Realty Elite building at 1466 Hooper Ave., police said.

The 2010 Porsche Boxster convertible driven by DeMartin was traveling northbound on Hooper Avenue before losing control and hitting the center median, police said.

Toms River Building Inspector John Gerrity has deemed the building unsafe, though it was unoccupied at the time

Hooper Avenue between Indian Hill Road and College Drive was closed for roughly seven hours between 6:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., police said.

The Ocean County Prosecutor's Office noted that two young men lost their lives"in an unimaginable accident."

"The Ocean County Prosecutor's Office extends our deepest sympathy to the families of these two young men," the OCPO said.

The two graduated from Toms River High School East, a friend told nj.com. As teens, both were avid skateboarders and frequently went to the now-closed Incline Club Skatepark in Lakewood, Foley's friend, Nicholas McMonnell, told nj.com.

"(Foley) was the nicest kid I've ever met," McConnell said. "Always laughing, smiling, joking, no matter what."

Foley was an electrician while DeMartin recently graduated from Rowan University with a degree in bioformatics, Aguiar told nj.com.

"Braden was the funniest, nicest, greatest person I've ever met," Aguiar told the publication. "He'd do anything for anyone. I could never stay mad at him for longer than an hour."

Here are other remembrances of the two:

Ocean County Scanner News and others posted photos and videos of the scene:

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