ABC/Image Group LAHailee Steinfeld sang at a candlelight vigil Wednesday night for a teenage fan who was killed in a go-karting accident last week.
The singer joined friends, family and teachers of 16-year-old Leah Kuczinski at New Hyde Park Memorial High School in Long Island, New York.
“Thank you guys all so much for asking me to come here and honor Leah,” Hailee is heard saying in videos posted to social media.
She continued, “You all had so many incredible things to say about her, I really would have loved to have met her. I know she was supposed to come to my show this summer, so I wanted to come here and sing a song for her.”
Hailee then sang an acoustic version of “Starving.”
According to Newsday, Leah died in a go-karting crash while on winter break in Florida last Thursday. One of her teachers reached out to Hailee on Twitter Tuesday, inviting her to the vigil and the tweet quickly gained more than 1,900 retweets.
Reportedly within a couple of hours, Hailee’s manager had contacted Leah’s family saying she would be there.
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