The first day of class after a prom is usually filled with excitement, stories and energy. There will be none of that today at Gwinnett County’s Meadowcreek High School.

Students gathered in front of the high school in Norcross last night to remember their classmate killed in a wreck on the way to a party after the school’s prom.

Johlonda Lindsey, 16, was a track and field athlete for the Mustangs. She was killed in the wreck shortly after midnight Sunday, school head counselor William Blair told the AJC Sunday. Three other students were hospitalized.

“It’s just hard to believe she’s gone,” Lindsey’s father John told Channel 2 Action News.”

Meadowcreek students are urging their classmates via Twitter to wear purple today, Lindsey's favorite color.

“She had an attitude that everybody enjoyed,” said classmate Maurice Bryant, “because she was so funny.”

Gwinnett County police said in a statement that another student was listed in critical condition. Two others were also taken to the hospital but “their injuries were not listed as life threatening."

Meadowcreek Junior Keiona Henderson, 17, told the AJC the group was on their way to an after-prom party in Lawrenceville. She says Lindsey and sisters Kendrea Walker, 16, and Caleena Walker were all passengers in the vehicle that wrecked.

Lindsey and her friends were traveling north on Steve Reynolds Blvd. when their car crossed the center line and hit another vehicle near Beaver Ruin Road. Alcohol does not appear to be a factor. But speed probably was, investigators say.

“They were coming from the party and (they were) speeding, racing,” said John Lindsey. “It would have saved my daughter’s life if she would have had her seatbelt on.”

Gwinnett police have not released the name of the driver who is responsible for the wreck. But that person is charged with vehicular homicide, failure to maintain lane, three counts of serious injury by vehicle, and reckless driving, according to police. WSB's Richard Sangster has been told he is a senior and an athlete at Meadowcreek.

“He was the one who was speeding and lost control of (the car),” said Mr. Lindsey. “He deserves what he gets.”