A Lorain teen riding with his friend has died, hours after the two were involved in a horrific car accident on Kansas Avenue. 
 
 A Lorain teen riding with his friend has died, hours after the two were involved in a horrific car accident on Kansas Avenue. 
 
 A Lorain man was arrested and charged for videotaping the aftermath of a deadly crash instead of trying to save a life. The crash happened early Monday on Kansas Avenue in Lorain. 
 
 Lorain Police say Zach Goodin, 17, was speeding over railroad tracks and lost control. Goodin's car crossed several yards, hit a parked vehicle and a utility pole, before crashing into a house. 
 
 Goodin is in critical condition at MetroHealth. His passenger, Cameron Friend, 17, died from his injuries. 
 
 Officers say Paul Pelton, 41, was at the accident scene. Pelton allegedly opened the back door of the car and took cell phone video. He then reportedly walked around to the driver's side and videotaped the driver. Witnesses say Pelton made no attempt to help or comfort the boys. 
 
 Pelton then posted the video on Facebook and tried to sell the video to several news organizations. 
 
 Denise White was trying to help the victims, who ended up just steps from her front door. She and others saw what Pelton was doing. 
 
 "To take that video and put it on Facebook, it just shows you have no principles. It's disgusting. That guy's mom probably had to see that. It made us relive it," said White. 
 
 He was arrested Wednesday for vehicle trespass. 
 
 Pelton recently posted a new video on Facebook under the name Paul Santucci, saying he was sorry and that this was all a big misunderstanding. 
 
 "I want to offer a public apology to the families of the kids that got injured or deceased in the car accident. I never intended it to be a video that came across as a gore video," said Pelton in the video. "I wanted to put the video out there so other kids could see it and learn from the mistake of speeding and driving recklessly." 
 
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 Man facing charges after videotaping teens in deadly crash Posted: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 2:27 PM EDT Updated: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 10:43 PM EDT 
 
 A Lorain teen riding with his friend has died, hours after the two were involved in a horrific car accident on Kansas Avenue. 
 
 A Lorain teen riding with his friend has died, hours after the two were involved in a horrific car accident on Kansas Avenue. 
 
 A Lorain man was arrested and charged for videotaping the aftermath of a deadly crash instead of trying to save a life. The crash happened early Monday on Kansas Avenue in Lorain. 
 
 Lorain Police say Zach Goodin, 17, was speeding over railroad tracks and lost control. Goodin's car crossed several yards, hit a parked vehicle and a utility pole, before crashing into a house. 
 
 Goodin is in critical condition at MetroHealth. His passenger, Cameron Friend, 17, died from his injuries. 
 
 Officers say Paul Pelton, 41, was at the accident scene. Pelton allegedly opened the back door of the car and took cell phone video. He then reportedly walked around to the driver's side and videotaped the driver. Witnesses say Pelton made no attempt to help or comfort the boys. 
 
 Pelton then posted the video on Facebook and tried to sell the video to several news organizations. 
 
 Denise White was trying to help the victims, who ended up just steps from her front door. She and others saw what Pelton was doing. 
 
 "To take that video and put it on Facebook, it just shows you have no principles. It's disgusting. That guy's mom probably had to see that. It made us relive it," said White. 
 
 He was arrested Wednesday for vehicle trespass. 
 
 Pelton recently posted a new video on Facebook under the name Paul Santucci, saying he was sorry and that this was all a big misunderstanding. 
 
 "I want to offer a public apology to the families of the kids that got injured or deceased in the car accident. I never intended it to be a video that came across as a gore video," said Pelton in the video. "I wanted to put the video out there so other kids could see it and learn from the mistake of speeding and driving recklessly." 
 
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 Police say a highly unusual case has sparked outrage by viewers of a video posted to Facebook, and now the video has the attention of the Lorain city prosecutor. 
 
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 The controversy focuses on cell phone video posted online showing the inside of a car seconds after what turned out to be a deadly car crash. 
 
 Lorain Police say they investigated the man who posted the video, taken before police and paramedics arrived. 
 
 "I just wanted to educate people to slow down," said Paul Pelton, the Lorain resident at the center of the investigation. "I didn't do that to have some type of gore video." 
 
 "He's not at the crime scene to try to assist anybody," said Lorain Police Detective Sergeant Buddy Sivert. "He's there for his own gain. Then he breaks the law by trespassing into someone's vehicle." 
 
 Pelton recorded the car smoking seconds after the crash. He then opened the back door and continued recording. 
 
 “I thought I saw movement in the backseat so I wanted to open the door there to see if there were any victims back there that maybe I could help," said Pelton. 
 
 “Had he videotaped it across the street, we wouldn't have an issue with it," added Sivert. "The issue started when he entered the vehicle to take the video and the fact that he's videotaping two young men who were, one critically injured, one seriously injured.” 
 
 In the video, he reportedly calls the boys "idiots" and continued to record the inside of the car while neighbors attempted to help. Police added that he never offered aid to the victims. 
 
 The man offered the video to news organizations, including to newsnet5.com. In a Facebook message, he asked for a donation to a charity with which he's involved in exchange for the video. 
 
 newsnet5.com declined, even before we saw the video, because our policy is to not exchange money for content. 
 
 We chose not to show the video from inside the car because it is too graphic. 
 
 The passenger, 17-year-old Cameron Friend, died from his injuries after the crash on Kansas Avenue just after midnight Monday morning. 
 
 The driver, 17-year-old Zachary Goodin, is being treated at MetroHealth Medical Center. 
 
 Police said the car lost control after speeding over a train crossing and crashing into an SUV, a house and a tree. 
 
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 As the car caught fire, other neighbors helped pull the driver from the car. 
 
 Police reviewed the video and now the Lorain prosecutor has charged Pelton with vehicle trespassing. 
 
 The charge is a misdemeanor in municipal court. 
 
 The case itself has sparked debate over what crosses the line by how the video was obtained and why the graphic content was posted online. 
 
 In this case, Lorain Police said the law was broken when the man entered the car to record video and not to assist. 
 
 Police arrested Pelton just before noon Wednesday. 
 
 Lorain Police said there has been community outrage by people upset Pelton posted the video online. 
 
 As smartphone and social media technology quickly evolves, Lorain Police are concerned others might enter what are considered potential crime scenes and disrupt evidence to gather cell phone video. 
 
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– The Daily Beast has christened Ohio's Paul Pelton "America's Worst Samaritan," a distinction the 41-year-old earned thanks to his behavior at a deadly car crash. He filmed the two teenage victims instead of trying to help them, then tried to sell the footage to local media, reports newsnet5 of Cleveland. At one point, Pelton opened the back door of the vehicle and filmed the interior as 17-year-old Cameron Friend lay dying and driver Zachary Goodin, also 17, lay critically injured. Pelton muttered "idiots" throughout his video, which he ended up posting on Facebook and trying to push onto news organizations. By opening the car door, Pelton got himself into legal, not ethical, trouble. Police have charged him with vehicle trespass. "Persons are not ... allowed to trespass into a person's vehicle criminally and without permission for the seemingly singular cause of filming, a young man's dying moments, for profit," wrote Capt. Roger Watkins of the Lorain Police Department on Facebook. Other bystanders were at the scene with Pelton, but they were trying to help the teens. Pelton has since apologized publicly. "I just wanted to educate people to slow down," he tells the Cleveland TV station. "I didn't do that to have some type of gore video." Friend died from his injuries, and Goodin remains in critical condition, reports 19ActionNews. "To take that video and put it on Facebook, it just shows you have no principles," one of the bystanders who tried to help at the scene tells Fox19. "That guy's mom probably had to see that." (A Good Samaritan who actually stopped to help people whose SUV rolled over met a tragic end.)