The officers and the passenger were transported to a nearby hospital where they were treated for their injuries.
The other child had not yet been identified as of press time, but was mentioned in a social media post as NuNu. Will be available to all of our students for as long as it is needed.” Today, the district Student Assistance counselors and our guidance staff met with students in the fourth grade to provide them with support. “Our prayers and deepest sympathy goes out to the families of both children. Fico of Hillcrest School in Somerset wrote in a message to the community. School in another district,” Principal Albert J. Students, Zion Barnes, a fourth grade student, and his cousin, a student who attends “It is with a heavy heart that I am informing you of the loss of one of our Hillcrest Bruck.Īn initial investigation by Detective Jonathan Berman of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office determined the two police officers were transporting the in-custody passenger to the Middlesex County Adult Correction Center in North Brunswick on Route 130 south when Batista-Alcantara drove the wrong way down the on-ramp and struck the police vehicle, according to the statement from the prosecutor’s office.īatista-Alcantara and the juveniles were transported from the scene to a nearby hospital where the juveniles were pronounced dead, according to the statement.
The second vehicle was a marked Old Bridge Police Department vehicle driven by an Old Bridge police officer, and which contained a second Old Bridge police officer and a civilian, according to information provided by the Office of Acting New Jersey Attorney General Andrew J. A Honda Accord operated by Yokauri Batista-Alcantara, 31, of New Brunswick, was driving on the wrong side of the highway, and contained two children.