Crime & Safety
Police Release Identities Of 2 New Haven Residents Killed In Fiery One-Car Cash Overnight Sunday
Nicky Perez, 40, was taken to hospital in a private car and died there. The woman found dead in the car's back seat was Lymarys Walker, 37.
NEW HAVEN, CT — Police have now identified both the victims in a fatal Sunday morning crash on Ella T. Grasso Boulevard in New Haven.
Police said that Nicky Perez, 40, was likely the driver in the one-vehicle crash into a tree. Perez was taken by private vehicle to Yale New Haven Hospital after the 3 a.m. fiery crash and later died from his injuries.
Lymarys Walker, 37, of New Haven was identified by police and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner as the second fatality.
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It was just before 3 a.m. when cops were called to the 500 block of Grasso, between Adeline Street and Printer's Lane, on a report of a car accident in which a vehicle struck a tree and caught fire, police said.
New Haven firefighters extinguished the blaze. Once the fire was put out, firefighters discovered a body in the rear seat of the car, police said, that of a woman, now known to be Walker.
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