Victims identified in fatal Lakewood crash that split car in half
Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating if alcohol and drugs were a factor
Victims identified in fatal Lakewood crash that split car in half By Avery Williams, Sia Nyorkor, and Shannon Smith | February 22, 2021 at 8:59 AM EST - Updated February 22 at 2:55 PM
LAKEWOOD, Ohio (WOIO) - The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner identified Alejandro R. Mercado and Maximus X. Close, both 19 years old, as the two people who died in a crash in Lakewood this weekend.
Police said the crash occurred around 2:20 a.m. Sunday near Clifton Boulevard and Fry Avenue.
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LAKEWOOD Months after reporting the department’s first rescue of a cat from a tree in “a number of years,” Lakewood Fire Department Chief Kurt Hallberg reported that first responders helped rescue a dog from a wall over the weekend.
“You really can’t make it up,” Hallberg said via Zoom during his report to the Lakewood Village Board during Monday’s meeting, noting that the dog ended up in a drywall wall through a void space caused by a bathtub.
“If you’ve ever seen a bathtub that’s upside down, on the edge where you’d put a sliding door, that adds a void space between the front and the back of the bathtub where it’s formed,” Hallberg said. “The dog went into where it used to be a cupboard for towels, got into the front of that bathtub and walked all the way down to the back of the bathtub and came to a drywall wall. We had to cut the drywall out and take the dog out from that end.”