Second person now dead from a fatal accident in Noxubee Co.

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NOXUBEE COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) – A second person has died as a result of a weekend car crash in Noxubee County.

Noxubee County Coroner, R.L. Calhoun told WCBI that 17-year-old Kennedy Jerome Hopkins, Junior died at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.

Hopkins was a passenger in a Dodge Challenger driven by Jeremiah Jackson of Macon.

The Dodge collided with a Honda driven by Johnariya Prince Saturday night, February 1, on Highway 45 near Macon.

Prince died at the scene.

Jackson and another passenger remain in the hospital in Columbus.

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