‘Take me to jail’: Wrangler driver asks ‘did I kill anyone?’ after going 102 mph in fatal crash that killed a mom, then took a nap in the back of the squad car, police say

A 32-year-old pistillate successful Wisconsin has been arrested for allegedly causing a car crash that near 1 pistillate dormant and 3 different radical injured aft constabulary accidental she was driving astatine speeds of up to 102 mph successful a 35 mph portion conscionable earlier colliding into the rear of different car. A’Jena Wynn-Howard was taken into custody connected Saturday and is presently facing 1 number of first-degree reckless homicide and 2 counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety, tribunal records show.

According to a transgression ailment obtained by Law&Crime, officers with the Milwaukee Police Department connected Saturday, May 10, 2025, responded to 911 calls involving a multi-vehicle clang successful the 4300 artifact of N 76th Street. One of the callers told the dispatcher that the clang progressive 3 cars and “one of them was divided successful half,” portion different caller said idiosyncratic had been “ejected from 1 of the vehicles.”

Upon arriving astatine the scene, archetypal responders said they recovered that a Chevrolet Traverse and a Jeep Patriot were successful the northbound lane of N 76th Street erstwhile the Traverse was struck by a speeding 2021 Jeep Wrangler driven by Wynn-Howard. Officers said they located the assemblage of an big female, aboriginal identified arsenic Tonya Missouri-Smith, deceased wrong the Traverse, which had sustained “severe harm to the rear and driver’s side. Her lad was besides successful the conveyance and sustained non-life-threatening injuries.

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Police said that Wynn-Howard’s Jeep was located “over 400 feet north” of the different 2 cars and had terrible front-end damage.

“Complainant states that the probe revealed the Jeep Wrangler, driven by the Defendant, drove astatine a precise precocious complaint of velocity into the backmost of the Chevrolet Traverse, driven by deceased unfortunate Tonya Missouri-Smith, and forced that conveyance into the backmost of the Jeep Patriot,” the ailment states.

A consequent autopsy determined that Missouri-Smith’s origin of decease was aggregate blunt unit injuries accordant with a vehicular crash, including facial lacerations, encephalon bleeding, a severed spinal cord, and fractures to each 1 of her ribs arsenic good arsenic her sternum and pelvis. She besides lacerated her aorta, lungs, liver, spleen, and intestines.

Missouri-Smith’s lad told authorities that his parent was driving westbound and successful the process of turning close erstwhile they were struck from behind.

While astatine the scene, constabulary said Wynn-Howard opened the doorway and got into the backmost of a squad car, unprompted.

“The Defendant sat successful the backmost of the squad and appeared to beryllium waiting for police, appearing to autumn dormant successful the backmost of the squad portion she was waiting,” the ailment states.

When the serviceman noticed what was happening and approached his car, Wynn-Howard allegedly confessed to driving the Jeep Wrangler that allegedly caused the crash, saying, “That’s my car, I crashed.”

“Complainant notes again that the Defendant is the listed proprietor of the Jeep Wrangler, which is the car that caused the 3 conveyance collision,” the ailment states. “Thus, this connection is accordant with the Defendant stating she was driving her car during the crash. The Defendant past went connected to authorities ‘Take maine to jail. I crashed that car.’ The Defendant past asked ‘Did I termination anybody?'”

Data from Wynn-Howard’s car showed that 5 seconds earlier the crash, she was traveling astatine 96 mph and “slowly increasing,” with the past information constituent earlier the clang showing that she was “traveling 102 mph.” The posted velocity bounds was 35 mph.

Wynn-Howard is presently being held successful the Milwaukee County Jail connected a cash-only enslaved of $40,000, records show.