Five black teens stole a 2012 Dodge Charger and went for a joyride, doing 100 MPH in a 35 MPH zone. The car left the road doing 118 MPH and rolled down a hill, clipping a telephone pole before sliding into a tree and exploding into a fireball.
Five teenagers were killed when the stolen car they were travelling in hit a tree at 118mph and burst into flames.
An officer in a patrol car saw the blue 2012 Dodge Charger traveling at about 100mph east on East Main Street in Kalamazoo Township, Michigan.
According to police reports, the officer attempted stop the vehicle but gave up because the car was traveling too fast.
The dead have now been named as Cortavion Murphy, 15, Jaquarius Hegler, 15, Elexus Hillsman, 16, Marshawn Williams, 15, and Deztanee Cobb, 17.
Though police would not say who was behind the wheel, no drugs or alcohol were in the driver’s system.
Cortavion Murphy’s mother, Jamilla Mcferrin, told media she believed her son may have been the driver was not certain, the Kalamazoo Gazette reported.
Dash cam footage shows the patrol car coming across a fireball beside the road around two minutes later, three-quarters of a mile east of Sprinkle Road.
The vehicle had crossed into the opposite lane and left the north side of the road, went down a hill and into a yard, and glanced a telephone pole before rolling onto its side and hitting a large tree.
Though police would not say who was behind the wheel, no drugs or alcohol were in the driver’s system.
Cortavion Murphy’s mother, Jamilla Mcferrin, told media she believed her son may have been the driver was not certain, the Kalamazoo Gazette reported.
Dash cam footage shows the patrol car coming across a fireball beside the road around two minutes later, three-quarters of a mile east of Sprinkle Road.
The vehicle had crossed into the opposite lane and left the north side of the road, went down a hill and into a yard, and glanced a telephone pole before rolling onto its side and hitting a large tree.
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