HOLBROOK, AZ : Holbrook man, 19, charged in fatal crash on Tuesday, 20th November 2018

A 19-year-old man is facing charges of drunken and drugged driving after police said he was the driver in a fatal Holbrook crash that killed his girlfriend, 20-year-old Nicole Ricci of Stoughton.

Hector DeJesus, of Holbrook, was arrested by police at his home around 11 a.m. on Monday. He was arraigned in Quincy District Court later that day on charges of manslaughter while driving drunk, drugged driving causing serious injury, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, malicious destruction of property over $1,200 and speeding. DeJesus was ordered held on $50,000 cash bail. He is due back in court Dec. 19.

Police said that DeJesus was the driver of a car that smashed into a pole and went airborne before crashing through the roof of a house at 4 Kingsley St. in Holbrook shortly before 5 a.m. on Nov. 11. Police said that there were two other people in the car, a Holbrook man and Ricci. Police said that Ricci had to be extracted from the car using a hydraulic device. She was taken to Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital where she was pronounced dead.

After the arraignment, Ricci’s uncle, George Paluzzi, said her death would haunt the family forever.

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