SOMERVILLE (AP) — The victim of a fiery car crash in Somerville last week has been identified as a new U.S. citizen originally from India who had recently voted in his first American election.
The state medical examiner said Wednesday that DNA has confirmed that the victim of the June 14 crash was 27-yearold Nikhil Andrew Rodrigues of Somerville.
Somerville First Selectman Susan Greer tells the Kennebec Journal that Rodrigues was “a nice young man, very smart, very clever.”
She says the June election was his first vote as a U.S. citizen.
His mother is a teacher in Regional School Unit 12, which includes Somerville.
Rodrigues died when his car left the road, struck a tree and caught fire.
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