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Another weird/tragic/surprising death.

A teenager dies from one punch to the face. (Note, autoplaying video in story at link)

LAKE STEVENS, Wash. -- One Lake Stevens teenager is dead and another is behind bars, all because of one punch that police say may have been a fatal blow.

Both the suspect and the victim are 18-year-old seniors at Crossroads High School in Granite falls. KING is not identifying the suspect because he has not been charged. The Granite Falls School District identified the victim as 18-year-old Jarom Thomas.

Police say the two got into an argument at a party last Saturday night and tried settling it with punch. Neither of them predicted this would be the outcome.

"My son is not a bad boy. He's not a bad kid," said the suspect's father, who identified himself as Michael Galen. "I feel really sorry for this family for their loss. This is what I'm crying for is for their loss. Yes I'm sad for my son, but he's alive. "

Last Saturday night the two teenagers were partying with friends at a cabin on Lake Roesiger. Witnesses told police two got into an argument after Thomas accidentally hit a car the suspect was sitting in.

The two teens agreed to finally settle their differences out on the road where Thomas agreed to allow the suspect to hit him. The two shook hands and smoked a cigarette together, but the suspect hit Thomas so hard he fell to the ground and never regained consciousness.

Sheriff's spokeswoman Shari Ireton says the victim fell backward, hitting his head on pavement. A friend took the unconscious teen to a hospital, where he died.

"I spoke to my son and he told me I didn't want this to happen, I didn't mean for this to happen," said Galen.

Galen says his son had no criminal history, had just gotten a job at Burger King and was determined to finish school.

Now Galen worries two lives have been ruined by a grave mistake.

"Don't drink please, because things like this can happened," he said. "When you don't expect it. You don't mean to. Please don't drink."