Exclusive: Pizza Shop Owner Reflects on Deadly Crash Into Newton Storefront

"We just wanted to get back open, make pizza, serve people," Hedy Jarras said

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The owner of a pizza shop is speaking out in a rare interview about the horrific night in 2016 when a car crashed through the facade, killing two of her customers and injuring seven others in the West Newton, Massachusetts, eatery.

Sweet Tomatoes owner Hedy Jarras is celebrating 20 years in busines, but the loss of life in the restaurant she built remains impossible to shake.

"We just wanted to get back open, make pizza, serve people," she said.

Eighteen months after a car plowed into the Sweet Tomatoes restaurant in Newton, Massachusetts, killing two people, the shop has quietly reopened its doors.
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