BOSTON (WHDH) - One person is dead and another was taken to the hospital after a car crash in Dorchester Friday night, according to the Boston Police Department.

A car crashed into a house on Fifield Street at around 8:35 p.m., police said. The driver of the vehicle was pronounced dead at the scene and the passenger was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

Several police cruisers and officers were on scene near the intersection of Fifield and Church streets.

Investigators put a tent over a car on Fifield Street, and a Crime Scene Response truck arrived just before 10 p.m.

Police previously reported the incident as a shooting, but have since released updated information. No other information was immediately available.

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