BOCA RATON, Fla. – A 15-year-old boy accused of crashing a stolen car into a sport utility vehicle in Boca Raton, killing a mother of two, has been identified.
Boca Raton police said Tuesday that Wesley Brown faces charges of vehicular homicide, murder and aggravated fleeing and eluding causing death.
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Police said the Deerfield Beach teenager and a 20-year-old man robbed a valet attendant at gunpoint Sunday night at The Addison, stealing the keys to a 2016 Ford Mustang.
Shortly before 11:30 p.m., a Boca Raton police officer spotted the stolen Mustang on Northwest Second Avenue, so the officer began to follow it and called for backup. Before officers could initiate a traffic stop, the Mustang sped off and slammed into a silver Honda Pilot that was traveling east on Palmetto Park Road.
The driver of the SUV, identified as Wendy Harris, 46, of Boca Raton, was pronounced dead at the scene. A GoFundMe page for Harris (who is listed as Wendy Aceves) said she was a mother to a 15-year-old girl and 8-year-old boy.
Police said Brown has been arrested six times since January.
A passenger in the stolen car, identified as Jacquan Strowbridge, ran off after the crash and was caught a short time later, police said.
Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office detectives are investigating the crash.
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