Article updated: 12/14/2011 6:15 AM

Elementary school grapples with Island Lake twin's death in crash

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A pickup truck slammed into this Lincoln Continental Monday at Rand Road and Old McHenry Road near Lake Zurich resulting in the death of 10-year-old Griffen Shirey of Island Lake and sending his twin brother and father to the hospital. Police are still investigating.

Gilbert R. Boucher II | Staff Photographer

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Officials at the Island Lake elementary school where a 10-year-old boy who died in a crash Monday night attended said the staff was shaken by the news, and many classmates had not heard until they arrived Tuesday.

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