Crime & Safety
UPDATE: Koga Junior Killed in Franklin St. Crash; Wife Pregnant
The Brazilian community is mourning the death Koga Junior, who died when the car he was driving crashed into a tree on Franklin Street Thanksgiving morning.
UPDATE 2:30 a.m. and again at 2:30 p.m.
Members of the Framingham Brazilian community were discussing the death of Koga Junior on radio in Portuguese, on Twitter and even on Framingham Patch Thanksgiving day.
The crash is "under investion by Framingham Police and State Police accident reconstruction team," said a Framingham Police spokesperson Friday afternoon. He released the driver's name as Ricardo Koga Junior, 31.
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At the scene, Thanksgiving morning Framingham Police requested, on the scanner, for the reconstruction team, the and the medical examiner.
Friends say Junior's wife is pregnant. Junior, according to friends is a Brazilian national from Santa Catarina, a state in South Brazil. One friend said his wife is due to give birth in a couple of weeks. Junior is employed as a mechanic and lives in Framingham, according to friends.
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commented on Framingham Patch Thursday "very very sad news - Junior we gonna miss you."
Nayara Martins, who tweeted the Framingham Patch video of the accident, also tweeted "Hate to see once again another life cut short so quickly because of driving drunk. When are people going to learn?! <|3 #RIPJunior"
Friends tell Framingham Patch Junior "came back from a night club, was brought to his home and got into his own car to go out again."
Friends said they suspect alcohol may have been involved.
Police have released no details on the fatal crash.
The crash happened just after the at 384 Franklin St.
At the scene, blocked off the road. The placed a sheet over the car lodged into the tree and then added a second sheet to block the scene, while awaiting the State Police reconstruction team, which was coming from another Thanksgiving fatality in Freetown.
A neighbor near the crash, who didn't wish to be identified, said the driver was partially ejected from the car. "It is a nasty scene," he said.
Editor's Note: Due to cultural and translation issues our first report reversed the names of the deceased.
