The Nez Perce County Sheriff's Office says was called out to a possible suicidal subject heading west on Sunny Side Bench Road near Lenore when police say he lost control of the vehicle and rolled over a small embankment. 
 
 An Idaho teenager who made statewide headlines earlier this week when he went missing after his prom last weekend has died in an automobile crash. 
 
 The Nez Perce County Sheriff's Office says deputies were called out to a possible suicidal subject heading west on Sunny Side Bench Road near Lenore Wednesday afternoon when he lost control of the vehicle and rolled over a small embankment. 
 
 Deputies say the driver, Kristian Branden Perez, had taken his parent's Chevy Tahoe without their permission and was speeding at the time of the crash. The vehicle rolled several times before it went over the embankment. 
 
 Perez had recently been taken into custody on a runaway charge after authorities found a tuxedo jacket, a shoe and a broken cell phone near the vehicle he arrived at prom. 
 
 
 
 He was later found inside an Orofino home earlier this week. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 The 17-year-old Orofino teenager who ran away after his prom earlier this week died Wednesday afternoon after a car crash on Sunny Side Bench Road near Lenore, Idaho. 
 
 A nursing supervisor at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Lewiston confirmed that Kristian Branden Perez died there on Wednesday. 
 
 The Nez Perce County Sheriff’s Office reported that they responded to a “possible suicidal subject” driving on Sunny Side Bench Road shortly after 2 p.m. Wednesday. The driver lost control and rolled down an embankment, according to a news release. He had to be extricated from the car and was taken to the hospital by Life Flight. 
 
 Perez was reported missing by his mother after he checked out of his prom shortly after 9:30 p.m. Friday and never returned home. 
 
 He was found in a home in Orofino early Tuesday morning and was facing charges of being a runaway. The man who lived in the home where Perez was found, 26-year-old Tyson Imel, was arrested for providing shelter for a runaway child, a misdemeanor.
– The Idaho teenager who disappeared following his prom—and was later charged with running away from home—died in a car crash Wednesday, bringing a sad end to a week of headlines. KBOI reports the driver of a Chevy Tahoe was speeding when he lost control of the car and rolled it down a small embankment; he had to be extracted from the car, according to the Spokesman-Review. The driver was identified as 17-year-old Kristian Perez, whose death was confirmed by a nurse at an area hospital. Deputies say Perez had taken his parents' Tahoe without permission. Deputies had been called regarding a possibly suicidal person prior to the crash. Perez was reported missing by his mother Friday night when he didn't return home after his prom. He was found early Tuesday voluntarily staying at the home of a 26-year-old man. Running away from home is a crime in Idaho, and Perez was arrested, charged, and released.