BOSTON (MyFoxBoston.com) --Police are looking to charge the driver in connection with Saturday's crash in Boston that killed a couple. FOX 25 learned Monday night that the driver may not have had a license.
Flowers and a candle now surround the area where a man and woman walking were killed after a car crash at the intersection of Beacon and Fairfield streets Saturday night.
Police are hoping to charge Ghuzlan Alghazali with two counts of motor vehicle homicide by negligent operation and Mohamed Alfageeh, 29, of Allston, with misleading investigators as he allegedly said he was driving Alghazaliâs vehicle at the time of the crash.
The crash happened just after 9:10 p.m. Two cars were involved in the crash, and one of them rolled over, said Boston Police Superintendent Bernie O'Rourke. That car then struck two pedestrians, a man and a woman.
The man was pronounced dead on scene and the woman was taken to Brigham and Women's Hospital where she was in critical condition but later succumbed to her injuries and died. The victims were identified 28-year-old John Lanzillotti and 27-year-old Jessica Campbell, both of Brookline.
Lanzillotti worked as the manager of Red Sox productions and game operations. Campbell was a retail senior analyst at Kantar Retails.
The company released a statement Monday, which read in part: "Jessica had been a member of the Kantar Retail family for three years. Her passion for life, professionalism, and friendship will be sorely missed throughout our organization. We extend our condolences to her family, as well as the family of John Lanzillotti, during this difficult time."
Her boss said she was a wonderful person and that her colleagues always enjoyed working with her.
Occupants of the car that flipped over also were injured and taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries. The occupants of the other car involved in the crash were not injured, O'Rourke said.
On Saturday night, O'Rourke said it was unclear what exactly happened during the crash, though investigators were looking into the matter.
Karen Pevenstein, who lives just around the corner from the scene of the crash, said she heard a really loud crash, and then a scream, as she was eating dinner. She ran to the scene of the crash and saw a car flipped over and another car in the middle of the intersection.
Pevenstein said she spoke to an eyewitness who was standing at the intersection waiting for a the traffic light to turn. According to that eyewitness, Pevenstein said, a car came "zipping down" Beacon Street, though that direction had a red light, hit the car coming down Fairfield Street that had a green light, and flipped over, hitting pedestrians who were crossing the street.
"When you heard the sound from your window, you knew it was bad, just the sound of it," she said. "It's just a horrific scene."
The intersection is dangerous, she said, adding that she often pauses a few seconds to cross the street even after a light has turned red.
"People run red lights all the time."