Teen killed in Wethersfield crash identified

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(Wethersfield, Conn./WTIC Radio - Wethersfield police have released the name of the juvenile killed Sunday afternoon when a car struck a residence in town.

Novelle Nesmith of Hartford was 14, say police.

Nesmith and two others were in a car which police say was operating erratically on Church Street toward Garden Street.

The car hit another vehicle and a tree before striking the house, police said.

Two occupoants were trapped in the vehicle.

A third ran off but later returned.

Nesmith was pronounced dead just before 2:30 p.m. at an area hospital.

Investigators say the car the three were in had been reported stolen out of Hartford.

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