Thanks Dan,
We won't be making the trip to pick him up. They will drive the deceased boy's pickup to his parents' home in Alexandria, LA. Donny's girlfried will meet them there and drive them back to school. It will take her about 3 hours total, but would have taken us around 7.
If we would have gone to New Orleans, it would have taken the better part of two days.
One side note--we got both our boys cell phones for Christmas, on the Cingular family plan. They can always reach us, and know that no matter what, we are here to help them.
DonM