LINCOLN, Neb.—Police in Nebraska have identified the six young people killed in a car crash that was first reported when a passenger’s cellphone automatically alerted dispatchers.
The Honda Accord hit a tree in a residential neighborhood in Lincoln early Sunday, investigators said.
The Lincoln Journal Star reports the driver was 26-year-old Jonathan Kurth, of Lincoln.
Four passengers died at the scene: Octavias Farr, age 21; Jonathan Koch, age 22; Nicholas Bisesi, age 22; and Benjamin Lenagh, age 23. A fifth passenger, Cassie Brenner, age 24, died later at a hospital.
All of the dead were residents of Lincoln except Lenagh, who was from Omaha….