‘I was devastated’: Community remembers 17-year-old killed in American Fork motorcycle crash

AMERICAN FORK, Utah (ABC4) — 17-year-old Noah Scribner was killed in a motorcycle crash in American Fork on Monday. On Tuesday, friends, family, and teachers spoke about who he was. 

Inside a Timpanogos High School classroom, time seems to pass by slowly for Robyn Bretzing after hearing that one of her students had died. 

“I was devastated,” Bretzing told ABC4.com. 

Bretzing was Scribner’s leadership advisor and used to work with him every day. 

“You could be walking down the halls, and he wouldn’t know you, but he would say ‘hi’ and make you feel welcome… and that’s just the kind of student Noah was,” Bretzing said. 

Scribner died in a motorcycle crash, just as he was preparing to graduate from high school. Scribner was loved by his friends, family, and former students.

“He’s literally the nicest person I’ve ever met, he’s super kind and loves everyone, and everyone wants to be like him,” Noah’s friend McCoy Michaelis said.  

“He was so energetic and funny. I loved everything about him. He was just so fun,” Bradley Adams, another friend of Noah, said. 

“He’s the most outgoing person you’ll ever meet. Always starting the conversation with people, he didn’t know and being a friend to all,” Noah’s friend Sam Adams said. 

Scribner was about to serve a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Other friends of Scribner said he had a passion for ballroom dancing. 

“He was a spunky kid and always doing crazy things and he could move, he was a ballroom dancer, and he could move in ways I never thought were possible,” Noah’s neighbor Nikki Michaelis said.  

Even though time ticks on slowly, for now, Scribner’s presence will always be felt inside one teacher’s Timpanogos classroom. 

“Once a T-wolf, always a T-wolf. I know a lot of students loved him. He may be gone, but he will always be a T-wolf. He impacted so many students here at Timpanogos,” Bretzing said. 

A relative of Noah has set up a GoFundMe* to help raise money for funeral and memorial expenses.

*ABC4.com is not affiliated with the online fundraiser or the organizers behind it. While this fundraiser is designated as “donation protected” by GoFundMe, ABC4.com does not guarantee that any funds donated will be used for the person(s) named as beneficiaries of the fundraiser.