MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ. (THECOUNT) — A GoFundMe For Cassie Feliciano has been started after the Piscataway High School student was killed Monday in a Piscataway, New Jersey single-vehicle crash.
Feliciano, 17, was killed in a single-vehicle crash after for unknown reasons, the vehicle wrecked on Monday night in Piscataway.
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According to reports, police arrived at South Randolphville Road and Centennial Avenue on reports of a vehicle crash. When they arrived, a vehicle was found overturned after apparently colliding with a utility pole.
Feliciano was transported to an area hospital where she was later pronounced dead of blunt force trauma injuries.
A GoFundMe created by Pamelitz Salinas of Piscataway has raised more then $16,000 as of Wednesday.
Via GoFundMe:
My name is Pamelitz Salinas and I am starting this gofundme to help my cousin Bertila Rodriguez and her husband Jay Rodriguez with funeral arrangements for their daughter Cassie who died yesterday in a tragic accident. She was the eldest of their 3 girls. Cassie was a beautiful smart athlete young girl
who attended Piscataway High School and played softball for Piscataway. She moved to Piscataway few years ago, originally from Carteret and also played basketball for township. Just turned 17 years old she is going to be extremely missed by the whole family.I am asking for anything that would help my family thru this very painful time I am also asking for prayers to heal their hearts
Funeral arrangements are trying to be made
I will update once a location has been chosen
Piscataway Schools Superintendent Frank Ranelli released a message to district families about her death.
“Our district family has suffered a terrible loss this week with the unexpected death of one of our Piscataway High School students. On behalf of the Board of Education and our administration, I am sending my deepest condolences to this student’s family in their time of tremendous loss,” Ranelli said in the notice. “We are all affected greatly when a life of such great potential and promise is cut short so tragically.”
He said counseling staff would be available to support the staff and students who knew the teen who died.
The investigation into the crash is ongoing.
Anyone with possible information on the crash should contact Piscataway Officer William Kloos at 732-562-2309 or Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office Detective Jonathan Berman at 732-745-4328.
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Geo quick facts: Middlesex County is a county located in north-central New Jersey, United States. In 2019, the Census Bureau estimated the county’s population at 825,062, making it the state’s second-most populous county, an increase of 4.1% from 809,858 in the 2010 census – Wikipedia.