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November 7, 2007

Police to discuss Barrington crash this afternoon

BARRINGTON -- Police Chief John LaCross has called a police station press conference for 2 p.m. to discuss Monday night's car crash that killed a 17-year-old high school student.

Jon Converse, a junior at Barrington High School, was pronounced dead at the scene off New Meadow Road. The 16-year-old driver suffered minor injuries and was being charged in Family Court with drunken driving, death resulting, and refusing to submit to a chemical breath test.

Similar charges, although this time filed in adult court, were leveled against 17-year-old Ryan Greenberg who was piloting a boat on the Barrington River in an accident that killed Patrick Murphy, also 17. Details of that July 17 accident have never been revealed. The case was supposed to go to a grand jury.

The 16-year-old driver involved in Monday's crash had two other passengers in the car, age 16 and 17. Neither were seriously injured.

The police have declined to name any of the survivors of that accident.

-- Journal staff writer C. Eugene Emery Jr.

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