Obituaries
Family IDs 19-Year-Old Killed In Saugus Crash
Ashley Forward, who turned to nursing during the pandemic, was going home to get her work uniform. She just finished her freshman year.
SAUGUS, MA — The family of the 19-year-old woman killed Wednesday morning in a violent crash in Saugus identified her as Ashley Forward of Lynn.
Forward died when a man who robbed a 7-Eleven robbery in Saugus fled police and crashed into her car as he drove the wrong way on Route 107, authorities said.
Forward's mother, Michelle Luongo, told WCVB her daughter was just a couple miles from their home when the crash happened. Forward was on her way home to get her uniform for working at Target, she said.
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Luongo said Forward had wanted to be a politician but changed to nursing during the pandemic.
The Boston Herald reported Luongo just finished her freshman year at Emmanuel College.
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“She was just the sweetest girl," Pat Luongo said of her granddaughter.
William Leger, 35, of Somerville, was hospitalized and arrested following the crash. Charges have not yet been filed.
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