2 teens killed in rollover crash in allegedly stolen car on Morrissey Boulevard in Boston
BOSTON - Two teenagers were killed and a third was critically hurt in a rollover crash that involved an allegedly stolen car on Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester early Thursday morning.
Massachusetts State Police said a trooper on patrol saw the 2013 Hyundai Accent crash on the northbound side the road near the UMass-Boston campus around 3:15 a.m. No other vehicles were involved. Police said the car was speeding before it rolled over.
There were four people in the car, according to police, all male, and three of them were teenagers.
"One victim was determined to be deceased on-scene. The three others were transported to various Boston hospitals; one of those victims was pronounced deceased at the hospital," State Police spokesman Dave Procopio said in a statement.
One of the victims has been identified as a 14-year-old boy from Dorchester. The second victim was also a teenage boy but his identity hasn't been released.
Of the two that survived, Procopio said one is in "grave" condition and the other, a 15-year-old from Dorchester, had "non-life threatening injuries."
State Police said the Hyundai had been reported stolen out of Jamaica Plain Thursday morning. A gun was located inside the car.
The crash comes as police departments across the country have been warning about a rise in Kia and Hyundai cars being stolen as part of a viral social media challenge, where suspects tamper with the ignition to steal the cars.
Investigators say they're not sure if this crash was part of that challenge, but they're looking into it.
WBZ-TV's Tammy Mutasa spoke with a Dorchester woman Wednesday night whose Hyundai was stolen from her parking lot, then damaged in a crash, before it was ditched. She is warning parents to be on alert.
"This is a new scam that's going on with kids just getting up in the middle of the night with pajamas, doing what they want to do," the woman named Latasha said. "Breaking into Hyundai Sonatas, breaking into Kias. It's this new thing on TikTok, social media, it's very dangerous."