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2 Fairmont High School grads killed in wreck
Posted: 07.10.2012 at 3:55 PM
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Two former football players from Fairmont High School have been killed in a wreck south of town.  / MGN
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FAIRMONT, N.C. (AP) -- Two former football players from Fairmont High School have been killed in a wreck south of town.

The N.C. Highway Patrol said 18-year-old Tyreke Addison of Lumberton and 18-year-old Nokolma Dakota Hunt of Fairmont were killed Monday night. The two were among five people riding in a 1994 Ford Thunderbird than ran off N.C. 41 and struck a tree around 9 p.m.

Addison also played on the school's basketball and baseball teams.

A patrol report said neither Addison nor Hunt was wearing seat belts.

Authorities identified the driver of the car as 18-year-old Alex Gilchrist of Lake View, S.C., another former Fairmont football player. He and two other passengers were hospitalized.

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