Police: Lacy's driving of car triggered fatal crash

Louisiana State Police released video and records connected Tuesday related to a fatal clang successful December 2024 they allege was caused by erstwhile LSU shot subordinate Kyren Lacy. Their probe had travel into question successful caller days aft a video was posted of an interrogation Lacy's lawyer conducted with a Louisiana TV presumption that formed uncertainty connected whether Lacy was liable for the clang that killed 78-year-old Herman Hall successful Chackbay, La.

"Since the incidental occurred, the Louisiana State Police ne'er reported that the greenish [Dodge] Charger impacted immoderate of the progressive vehicles," the Louisiana State Police section said successful their video released Tuesday. "However, each grounds collected supports the decision that Lacy's reckless cognition of the greenish Charger successful oncoming postulation triggered the concatenation of events involving the different drivers, yet resulting successful the fatal crash."

Lacy, 24, died April 12 successful Houston of an evident self-inflicted gunshot coiled successful his car during a pursuit by authorities, according to a Harris County sheriff's report. An apprehension warrant from January stated that Lacy was cited with felony negligent homicide and deed and tally driving and misdemeanor reckless driving. The Lafourche Parish territory attorney's bureau had not formally charged Lacy and had been preparing to nonstop the lawsuit to a expansive assemblage for an indictment connected April 14.

According to Lacy's lawyer Matthew Ory and authorities police, astir noon connected Dec. 17, 2024, Lacy was driving southbound connected Louisiana Highway 20 successful a greenish Charger and was passing vehicles successful a nary passing portion conscionable earlier a collision. His car ne'er collided with different car. Ory did not respond to ESPN's requests for comment.

In an apprehension warrant affidavit dated Jan. 8, constabulary said Lacy's 2023 Dodge Charger was traveling southbound astatine "an highly precocious complaint of velocity successful a posted 40 mph velocity zone," passing 4 vehicles - including an 18-wheel motortruck with a trailer - connected a highly congested roadworthy successful Chackbay. As Lacy's conveyance attempted to pass, it "rapidly approached a northbound pick-up truck." The affidavit said the pickup operator took exigency enactment by braking and driving disconnected the roadway to the right, coming to a controlled stop. Police said the operator down the pickup steered near to debar a head-on clang "with the rapidly approaching" Charger.

That operator struck a southbound 2017 Kia Sorento successful which Hall was a passenger.

In the compiled video narrative, constabulary included video of Lacy returning to the southbound lane. "As the greenish Dodge Charger returns to the southbound lane," the narrator says, "aggressive braking and motor deceleration are instantly followed by a clang that tin beryllium heard connected surveillance footage."

Lacy passed the clang country and continued on the highway. On constabulary bodycam footage, 1 witnesser said, "a greenish Charger caused each this." The witnesses' faces were blurred connected the video.

Police said they utilized 21 abstracted video cameras to seizure the "uninterrupted way of the Charger" from the clang country to a concern 11 miles away. Police besides said "evidence supports" that little than 10 minutes aft the crash, Lacy's archetypal outgoing telephone telephone was to a Baton Rouge-area idiosyncratic wounded and defence attorney.

In the interrogation Ory conducted with the section TV station, helium cited information helium said helium received from an probe by the Lafourche Parish District Attorney's office. Ory said that though Lacy passed 4 vehicles successful a no-passing portion anterior to the crash, Lacy returned to the due lane 92.3 yards earlier the mishap -- capable time, helium contended, to not person triggered the collision. He showed video of Lacy passing the clang country post-impact.

Ory said that information from the clang probe shows the car that ...