DEATH ROBS TEENAGERS OF YET ANOTHER BUDDY.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: JANE GOTTLIEB AND BECHETTA JACKSON Staff writers

SCOTIA -- For the teenagers suffering through their friend's wake Tuesday night, the emotions seemed to run far deeper even than the grief that goes with losing a friend so suddenly and so young.

``My son and his friends were killed and they've barely been able get through that, now they're in shock that there's more bad news,'' Janice Palmo said Tuesday night as hundreds of teenagers and their parents paid their respects to Justin Curren, 17.

Curren died Sunday when, according to police, his close friend Frank Connor shot him in the neck with a hunting rifle after a night of drinking at …