A group of McBride High School students went out to get ice cream Thursday night but ended up in the parking lot at their school lighting tealight candles to spell out the name “Isaac.”

That’s the kind of thing that has been happening since their friend, 17-year-old Isaac Jetmore, died in a motorcycle crash on Tuesday: They come to the spot where he always parked his bike to cry, listen to his favorite music and just be together.

Those close to Jetmore already knew it, but on Friday, authorities confirmed he was the rider killed in a collision with a pickup truck at Wardlow Road and Gondar Avenue Tuesday. Police said the pickup truck’s driver never saw Jetmore.

Jetmore was a senior at McBride where he had a reputation for his sense of humor and sense of style.

“He had this smirk if he knew he was gonna make you laugh,” Elisha Schlarb, one of Jetmore’s best friends, said.

That was one of the many “best things” about Jetmore, Schlarb said: He made people laugh, even when his jokes didn’t make any sense.

Jetmore was one of those kids who was popular without trying at McBride, one of the smaller high schools in the district. He had style and “stood out in the humblest way possible,” said Jada Givens, another good friend.

“Our school is split up into different pathways, but Isaac transcended that stuff,” Schlarb said.

Part of it was his humble confidence; part of it was that he didn’t care what other people thought yet didn’t make others feel inferior, his friends said.

“I was a huge nerd, but Isaac didn’t care,” Schlarb said. “… He taught me how to skateboard, taught me how to rap.”

“He tried to teach you how to rap,” Givens corrected as the group of teens laughed.

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He and Schlarb were neighbors and had been friends since sixth grade. Jetmore would give Schlarb rides to school, greeting his friend with, “How you doing, Bubba? Hop in.”

In their tealight tribute to Jetmore, they included the Louis Vuitton logo, which was also drawn in chalk on his coned-off parking spot. Jetmore was notably stylish and he loved the designer, his friends said.

His signature was his “crazy” socks, on display with his cuffed Dickies pants and white Converse. He would wear Hawaiian shirts with crazy patterns and had an ’80s-style turquoise-and-purple jacket that only he could pull off, his friends said.

Giovanni Longino remembers when he wore his own pants cuffed to school and Jetmore said they weren’t quite right. He bent down to fix them for his friend and Givens snapped a picture of the moment.

Jetmore had lots of random sayings and most of them didn’t make sense unless you knew him, his friends said, but two of his favorites were “I’m here for a good time, not a long time,” and “You get more with Jetmore.”

He got the last one from his dad, Schlarb said.

The teen was in the engineering pathway at school, but actually wanted nothing to do with engineering: He wanted to be a businessman. He had a plan to go to trade school and work in the stock market, which he would read about in Spanish class sometimes, Schlarb said.

He loved music and would count down the weeks until a new album release for local indie band Bane’s World or hip hop artist Lil Uzi. Jetmore could dance but couldn’t sing for anything, Schlarb said with a laugh.

“You put a camera on him, he would start dancing,” Schlarb said.

As the kids stood around in the parking lot of their school, they played music from a special playlist on Spotify, filled with Jetmore’s favorite music, songs that remind them of him and songs they thought he would like.

They’ve been listening to the playlist all week. Along with sleeping over at each other’s houses and ending up at the memorial site every night. They said it’s been a comfort to them.

Teachers and staff at the school have been understanding, they said, allowing the students to leave class to grieve if needed.

One of Jetmore’s favorite things to do was to take photos with an old Pentax film camera. He and Schlarb would go around Bixby Knolls and North Long Beach taking photos—but he never developed his film.

“He said taking the picture was enough and one day as an old man, he was going to develop them and look back on the memories,” Schlarb said.

A GoFundMe fundraiser has been set up to help with memorial costs and a website has been created with more information and will live stream his memorial service.