'Nobody deserves that': Mother wants answers after son's body found in police impound lot
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A week ago today, Lita Pawliw was on the receiving end of a phone call no mother ever wants to get.
A week ago today, Lita Pawliw was on the receiving end of a phone call no mother ever wants to get.
"I got a call from his best friend to say that he was in the hospital, and he had been in an accident and Dom was with him and they didn't know where he was," Pawliw said.
She rushed to the hospital to look for her son Dominick Lafreniere.
"They checked everywhere in that hospital and they couldn't find him," she said.
Pawliw said she called police, filed a missing persons report, then found out the address of the crash to go look.
"We were under the impression that he had been badly injured and had probably got out to go get help, and then didn't make it to go get help or maybe he was hurt and couldn't," said Pawliw.
She said police joined the search that evening, but there was no sign of the 19-year-old.
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