Community mourns 'bright and happy' Westlake High teen fatally struck by stabbing suspect

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Community mourns 'bright and happy' Westlake High teen fatally struck by stabbing suspect
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Thousand Oaks is mourning Wesley Welling, 15, killed in what officials have called an intentional crash by a suspect in an earlier stabbing.

A 15-year-old freshman at Westlake High School in Thousand Oaks was killed Tuesday when a driver plowed into a group of teens near a bus stop in what officials described as an intentional crash.“During the summers, he would come over here and go swimming in our pool,” said Eric Paul, a close friend of Wesley’s family whoWesley had been excited to start high school, joining his older sister at Westlake, and talked about attending college, Paul said.

Eis is accused of crashing his Toyota Camry into the group of teens just before 2:40 p.m. on Lakeview Canyon Road in Thousand Oaks. Wesley was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Two girls, 14 and 16, were injured in the crash, as well as another 15-year-old boy.

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