Clayton Jarreau
Clayton Jarreau
Clayton Jarreau was 17 year-old teenager from Ventress, Louisiana who died in a fatal crash.
Background
Professional Photograph of Clay.
Clayton was born and raised in the state of Louisiana. He has lived in the town of New Roads and it is where he has lived most of his life. He was a student at a prominent private high school, False River Academy. An accomplished student
academically, he was also a popular student at school.
Clayton with the American flag
Growing up, Clayton enjoyed going to the beach with his family and enjoying the outdoors.
He played a variety of sports, and was a leader in many of the sports teams he played in including Baseball where he played as a pitcher; and American football, where he was also on the defensive team.
He was a Conservative and a Donald Trump supporter.
On February 19th, 2017, during the early wee morning at around 3 a.m., Clayton, along with two friends took off and were driving on LA417 traveling southbound.
They were driving in Clayton's 2003 GMC Sierra. Clayton was not wearing his seatbelt, and unfortunately lost control of the vehicle and went off road in a curve, hit a culvert, and flipped. The vehicle overturned. Due to the nature of the crash and not wearing his seatbelt, he did not survive.
The two other passengers did survive and were transported to Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center with severe injuries.
It has also been reported that impairment is suspected to be a factor in this crash and a toxicology sample will be taken from Jarreau for analysis.
A sample of Jarreau’s blood will be sent to the Louisiana State Police Crime Lab for analysis.