Street Stories: looking for answers

LINCOLN, R.I (WPRI) - The father of a local teen killed in a high speed crash with her cousin at the wheel has some tough questions for local police.

The day of the crash in Lincoln that killed 15 year old Marissa Lorea, her cousin Andrew Bessette had a date to appear in court, until the speeding ticket he received one month earlier was voided. It was his second ticket within four months.

The officer who caught him filled in a December court date but that was changed since Bessette was a juvenile. The new date was October 15th -  the day Bessette drove three times the speed limit, lost control and hit a tree - killing his cousin.

Lorea acknowledges Bessette might not have appeared in court on the 15th even if the ticket was enforced. But unanswered is why the ticket was voided...not by the officer who wrote it...but by a Lincoln police sergeant. This document is required for voided tickets but in the lines that command an explanation in 'specific terms', there is nothing. The void was approved by the sergeant then by the officer who's the current chief police in Lincoln.

Neither the Lincoln Chief of police who signed off on the voided ticket nor the sergeant or the town solicitor would comment.

"I don't know how to explain it. It's like getting hit in the head again.by something else that could have prevented her from possibly being killed", said Lorea. "I don't want it to happen to anyone else but I also want to get some answers to what exactly happened"