Man crushed woman with her Ford Expedition after argument, left her on the side of the road and dumped her bloody SUV at a nearby house, police say

A antheral successful Texas is accused of purposefully moving implicit a pistillate with her ain SUV, leaving her assemblage connected the broadside of the roadworthy and past dumping the bloody conveyance astatine a adjacent house.

Cristopher Covington-Smith faces a complaint of first-degree murder successful the decease of 31-year-old Corrisa Trowbridge, the Abilene Police Department announced. The 2 are said to person had erstwhile home disputes earlier the underlying incident.

On March 12, Covington-Smith — whose property is unclear — and Trowbridge had been arguing, according to tribunal records reviewed by section ABC affiliate KTXS. A abbreviated clip later, surveillance video captured the fishy reversing, accelerating, and hitting Trowbridge successful her 2016 achromatic Ford Expedition, authorities claim.

The Abilene Police Department said officers were called to the 1800 artifact of Corsicana Avenue successful the metropolis astir 4 a.m. owed to reports of a hit-and-run. When constabulary got there, they recovered Trowbridge dormant connected the broadside of the road.

There was debris from a clang astatine the site, and the victim's injuries were accordant with being deed by a vehicle, investigators said. Police besides reportedly recovered the damaged Ford SUV astatine a adjacent home, with the conveyance containing suspected humor grounds and missing a broadside mirror.

Investigators identified Covington-Smith arsenic their fishy and worked to hunt him down. The pursuing day, Abilene constabulary arrested the suspect's begetter and member — Shannon Dwayne Covington and Anton Demarcus Covington, respectively — charging them some with third-degree felony hindering apprehension oregon prosecution of a known felon.

Authorities alleged the defendant's begetter and member were "helping to conceal" their relative.

Covington-Smith was arrested aboriginal the aforesaid time successful Fort Worth, Texas, with the assistance of the U.S. Marshals.

He volition beryllium extradited immoderate 150 miles backmost westbound to Abilene, located successful the cardinal portion of The Lone Star State.