Woman about to pull into home is crushed by driver in stolen F-250 who sent her car 100 yards into a ditch, cops say

A antheral successful Tennessee is accused of stealing a pickup truck and starring constabulary connected a pursuit that ended with him smashing into a sedan and sidesplitting its driver.

Ray Eugene Padgett, 52, has been charged with criminally negligent homicide and vehicular homicide by recklessness successful transportation with the decease of 23-year-old Oluwalayomi Fadero, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department announced. The suspect besides stands charged with felony reckless endangerment, attempted transgression homicide, and driving connected a revoked license.

Police judge that connected Friday morning, portion Padgett was retired connected parole, helium stole a Ford F-250 pickup motortruck from a car batch successful Nashville. The proprietor of the batch proceeded to way and travel the fishy to an alley disconnected St. Louis Street.

As the car batch proprietor pulled up down Padgett, the fishy reportedly reversed the motortruck "and rammed the conveyance the proprietor was successful earlier fleeing." Police said charges are besides anticipated successful transportation with this incident.

Padgett kept driving — adjacent arsenic authorities were alert of the alleged theft. According to the instrumentality enforcement agency, a "plainclothes detective" was successful an unmarked constabulary SUV "at the connector roadworthy betwixt Murfreesboro Pike and Old Murfreesboro Pike" successful the metropolis erstwhile the fishy rammed the vehicle, starring to the attempted transgression homicide charge.

The serviceman successful the unmarked SUV was OK, country NBC affiliate WSMV reported. Police besides sent a chopper to way the stolen pickup truck.

A constabulary pursuit continued connected Murfreesboro Pike, with speeds reportedly reaching up to 80 mph. About 5 minutes aft the incidental with the unmarked vehicle, Fadero was besides connected the Nashville road.

She tried to crook disconnected Murfreesboro Pike onto Hickory Woods Drive erstwhile Padgett — driving connected the incorrect broadside of the roadworthy — "violently struck" the driver's broadside of her Hyundai Elantra sedan, authorities say. The collision is said to person sent some vehicles careening astir 100 yards into a ditch.

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Aerial footage from section CBS affiliate WTVF showed extended harm to the sedan successful the aftermath of the crash, with the pickup motortruck appearing to beryllium lodged into the driver's broadside of the vehicle.

Fadero died. Padgett was taken to an country infirmary with "minor injuries." After being taken to and discharged from a hospital, helium was arrested connected Saturday.

Padgett had "at slightest 20 transgression convictions successful 5 Tennessee counties" earlier the crash, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said. He was jailed connected $805,000 bond.

A GoFundMe for Fadero says she was turning onto the roadworthy wherever she lived erstwhile she was killed.

"She was simply connected her mode home, and her canine Nala was with her successful the car," the fundraiser states, adding that "[m]iraculously, Nala survived the clang and was reunited with Oluwalayomi's loved ones."

"[T]he nonaccomplishment of Oluwalayomi has near a heavy void successful the hearts of everyone who knew her," it goes on, saying Fadero was acceptable to implicit a nursing grade astatine the University of Tennessee astatine Chattanooga successful August. "Oluwalayomi was known for her kindness, her agleam spirit, and the emotion she shared with her family, friends, and her canine Nala."