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Trial starts in deaths of five in 2013 Riviera Beach crash

Jean Cherilan pounded his right fist into his left hand in a Palm Beach County courtroom, as he described his memory of watching and hearing a collision in front of his car on Blue Heron Boulevard.

"I see the crash, bam!" the Lake Park man testified Monday, as the first witness in the trial of Jabari Shahid Kemp, 23, of Florida City.

Moments before, Assistant State Attorney Laura Laurie told the jury Kemp caused the 12:30 a.m. April 13, 2013 crash and must be held responsible for the deaths of five young people from Riviera Beach.