LANSING, Mich. — At approximately 3:41 a.m. Thursday, officers from the Lansing Police Department were dispatched to the 600 block of W. Willow Street for a car accident.
When officers arrived on scene, they found that a vehicle had crashed into a tree and caught on fire. The driver of the vehicle was unconscious and pronounced dead at the scene. The driver was identified as 19-year-old Najari Shephard of Lansing.
The four other passengers were transported to a local hospital, where three are in stable condition and one is in critical condition.
Investigators believe that speed was a factor in the crash.
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