Prosecutors plan to pursue homicide costs towards a driver accused of killing a mother and one among her 6-year-old son in an East Bay crash whereas making an attempt to evade police.
Ralph Ellsworth White III, a 20-year-old from Vallejo, is due in courtroom Wednesday to be arraigned on a number of felony counts over the deadly March 23 pursuit, the Contra Costa County District Legal professional’s Workplace introduced Tuesday.
Hercules police say they started the pursuit due to a stolen automobile alert that matched the Mazda SUV White drove. White allegedly led police eastbound on I-80 earlier than exiting on Willow Avenue in Rodeo.
When police tried to tug him over, they are saying White accelerated away after which slammed right into a automobile pushed by 31-year-old Ryniqueka Dowell and her twin sons.
Dowell died then and there. One among her sons died days later in a hospital. The opposite boy survived with a damaged leg, amongst different accidents.
Authorities say White then jumped out of the Mazda and ran till police caught as much as him at a close-by liquor retailer.
Officers booked White in Martinez jail and is predicted in courtroom Wednesday afternoon for arraignment on two counts of homicide with enhanced costs for committing crimes whereas on bail.
Different felonies filed towards him embrace fleeing a pursuing peace officer, inflicting critical bodily damage, killing or wounding one other particular person in a hit-and-run, carrying a loaded unregistered firearm and receiving stolen property.