The Clark County district attorney's office announced Friday that it will not seek to have two 17-year-old Bonanza High School students charged as adults in connection with a street racing crash that killed a Las Vegas man earlier this week.

And Brad Pidwell's family and friends are voicing their outrage.

"I am just flabbergasted, to tell you the truth," said the 34-year-old's sister, Cappi Pidwell. "They (the two male teens) killed someone. They murdered someone, not with a gun but with a car."

Pidwell was killed Wednesday afternoon when the driver of a white Ford F-150 ran a stop sign at Oakey Boulevard and Cimarron Road and slammed into the flatbed company truck that the victim was driving. Police said the pickup was driven by one of the two 17-year-olds. The other 17-year-old was driving a Toyota Tundra, which avoided the collision and fled the scene. That teen was taken into custody later.

The two students have been charged with felony reckless driving involving a death and have been booked into the Juvenile Detention Center. Their names have not been made public because they are juveniles.

Clark County District Attorney David Roger said the two students did not meet the criteria set by the Legislature and courts to certify them as adults.

One of the teens had a juvenile record for two previous offenses, but Roger said they were minor incidents that were handled outside juvenile court. Because he is a juvenile, those incidents were not made public.

"We felt the juvenile court system was best to handle their case," Roger said.

The district attorney's office is the ruling voice in this matter. A judge cannot attempt to certify juveniles as adults.

But Pidwell's family and friends are hoping to change Roger's mind by collecting signatures for a petition.

Roger said he empathized with the family.

"He was a good man and lost his life for no apparent reason except for the action of these kids," Roger said, but he emphasized that the actions of the teens did not meet the standards set by the Legislature and courts in regard to severity of the crime, background of the juveniles and prior services administered by the juvenile court system.

"Nothing will happen to them," said Christina Wirt, one of Brad Pidwell's coworkers at Kelly's Glass and Mirror Co., who said she feared that they will not be punished properly in juvenile court. She said she also was bothered that once the teens become adults, their records will be wiped clean. "It proves we are raising juvenile delinquents, and nobody cares. It's just not right," she said.

Wirt is collecting the signatures for the petition. "I have a voice, and it will be heard," she said. "And there are a lot of people behind me. Maybe if they see the petitions, they will change their mind."

"These young men are being treated like they are kids," Cappi Pidwell said. "They were doing almost 100 mph in a residential area in a school zone. They were doing adult things and should face adult consequences."