Howard Lashon Coleman II, 20, dies when struck by allegedly intoxicated teen driver in a parking lot at UNCW in Wilmington
20-year-old college sophomore killed in on-campus crash, NC police say. ‘Devastated’
The wreck happened Saturday, Oct. 1, shortly after midnight when a Jeep Wrangler with three people inside was driving recklessly around a University of North Carolina Wilmington parking lot, according to a news release from the UNCW Police Department.
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