Two teenage Kilgore sisters are dead and their brother is seriously injured after a single-vehicle wreck Sunday night in Rusk County.

Mergimtare Bojkaj, 17, died at East Texas Medical Center in Kilgore and Liridane Bojkaj, 14, was pronounced dead on the scene, said Trooper Jean Dark with the Texas Department of Safety. Their brother, Murteza Bojkaj, 19, is at Trinity Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler.

Dark said the vehicle, a 2001 Honda CRV was driven by Hava Shala, 33. Also in the front seat was Bennie Shala, 37. The three Bojkaj teens were in the back seat. The boy and younger girl were ejected from the car, while the older sister was partially ejected.

The wreck occurred about 10 p.m. on U.S. 259, just north of Henderson. The Texas Department of Public Safety worked at the scene assisted by the Rusk County Sheriffs Department.

Our preliminary investigation leads us to believe that the driver swerved to avoid something in the road, driving the vehicle into the median, Dark said. In the median, the vehicle rolled over and the three teens were all ejected, either fully or partially, from the vehicle.

Mergimtare Bojkaj was a junior at Kilgore High School. Her brother was a 2011 alumni and the younger sister was an eighth grader at Maude Laird Middle School, said Greg Brown, Kilgore High School principal.

She was a very sweet and well-liked young lady, Brown said. She was kind of quiet, a good student who never caused a bit of trouble.

The Bojkajs were a close-knit family, he said. They had owned two restaurants; first Napolis in Kilgore, then Sals Pizza Cafe in Henderson. Merg, as she was called by her friends, worked in both establishments.

The Kilgore High School campuses had five counselors available Monday to talk with students. .

This has been a very hard day for our school, Brown said. Everybody grieves differently, of course, but several students who were particularly close friends of hers (Merg) were so upset that they had to go home.

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