Harbor's Ryan Turner to posthumously be inducted into ACBF
The Harbor Mariners had high hopes for the 1997-1998 basketball season in the spring of 1997. But then fate intervened. One of the team’s stars, junior Ryan Turner, was killed when a motorist sped through a stop sign at the corner of Route 45 and North Bend Road in Saybrook Township.
The car Turner was riding in, driven by his sister, Dania, was headed south on Route 45 at about 9:45 p. m. on ...
The Harbor Mariners had high hopes for the 1997-1998 basketball season in the spring of 1997. But then fate intervened. One of the team’s stars, junior Ryan Turner, was killed when a motorist sped through a stop sign at the corner of Route 45 and North Bend Road in Saybrook Township.
The car Turner was riding in, driven by his sister, Dania, was headed south on Route 45 at about 9:45 p. m. on Saturday, April 12, 1997, when it was struck by a vehicle driven by Thomas Middleton of Geneva, headed east on North Bend Road.
Turner’s car was spun around and then hit by a third car, driven by James Titman of Geneva. One of the passengers in the Turner car, Shanika Isom, 17, died of her injuries that day, and Turner died the next day, Sunday. The son of Ray Barnes and Kathy Turner, Ryan Turner was a scoring and rebounding terror for the Mariners, particularly in his junior year.