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Logan Freed, 19, pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide in crash that killed Noah Cecil, 15
A Telford man, 19, was sent to state prison for five to 10 years after pleading guilty to felony accidents involving death and homicide by vehicle, for causing the crash that killed Noah Cecil, 15, a Souderton Area High School student on April 24, 2025, and fleeing the scene in Salford Township.
Logan Allen Freed, of the unit block of Klingerman Road, was sentenced Friday in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court by Judge Risa Vetri Ferman, who accepted a plea agreement. He will be on five years of probation following parole.
According to The Mercury, Assistant District Attorney Tanner Christian Beck sought the prison term for Freed, stating that Freed drove his 2021 Kia Sorrento sedan in a reckless and negligent manner across multiple municipalities, ending with a fatal crash on Whites Mill Road near Badman Road.
“The conduct included speeding in excess of 120 mph and over double the posted speed limits in multiple areas, crossing into opposing lanes of traffic and operating a cellphone recording videos while driving,” said Beck, according to the article.
Police said the speeding car hit an object and overturned onto its roof.
Cecil, was not wearing a seatbelt and was ejected from the car.
Noah Cecil, 15, of Telford. (Credit: Suess Funeral Home)Freed, a member of the Souderton High School Class of 2025, fled the scene of the crash, and did not report the accident to authorities. Troopers were notified of the crash by an automated signal from the Kia relating the vehicle had crashed at the location.
According to Montgomery County emergency dispatch, a female was heard on the 911 call stating she was OK and sounds of a door opening were heard on the line.
The crash occurred at 2:57 a.m. in the area of Badman and Whites Mill roads, with the vehicle overturning in the crash.
“It can’t be overstated, he essentially left his friend there to die at the scene of the crash. He left his friend in a ditch and he fled the scene of the accident and never called 911 or emergency personnel,” Beck said in The Mercury. “Under the law, he was obligated to remain at the scene.”
Friends of Cecil packed the courtroom to pile grief and anger onto Freed’s conscience.
“You left the scene of a crime with my son in a ditch…like he was a dead deer. That was my flesh and blood,” Richard Lee Cecil, the victim’s father, told Freed.
“When you had Noah as a friend, you had a true friend. His future was so bright until Logan Freed. He stopped Noah’s life all at once,” Dawn Cecil, Noah’s mother, testified. “I was there for his first breath and was robbed from comforting him for his last.”
“It was so heartless and cruel. My brother did not deserve that, especially since you’re supposed to be his friend,” Cecil’s sister, Engelica Cecil, told Freed.
Freed was supported in court by his parents and multiple friends.
“I will never stop regretting what I have done. This is something that will stay with me the rest of my life. I will never ask you to forgive me because I know that is not possible. I truly am sorry,” Freed wrote in a letter, read by defense lawyer William Lewis Goldman Jr.
“The Freed family, Logan in particular, has extreme remorse and sorrow for what occurred, the loss to the Cecil family,” Goldman told The Mercury.
According to his obituary, Cecil enjoyed listening to “LittleTjay,” playing video games, watching his favorite football team, the San Francisco 49ers, dancing, playing basketball and had a love for cats and bears.
In addition to his parents, Cecil was survived by his siblings Nicole Maucher of New York, Crystal Cecil of Georgia, Engelica Cecil of New Jersey, Anthony Matusek, and Ava Matusek of Telford, PA and Gavin Cecil of Telford, PA. He is also survived by his maternal grandmother Rosemary Maucher of Colonia, New Jersey and Peggy Hoagland of Bedford, PA.
In lieu of flowers, the family requested donations in Cecil's name be made to the Tully Fund, c/o Telford Veterinary Hospital, 78 Souderton Hatfield Pike, Souderton, PA 18964.
All suspects and defendants are innocent until proven guilty. This story was compiled using public court records.
