Last Updated on March 19, 2024, 9:09 AM | Published: March 19, 2024
OKLAHOMA CITY — The passenger of a vehicle that crashed in east Bricktown over the weekend died from their injuries and the driver has been booked for manslaughter.
Police have now released the name of the passenger who was pronounced dead at the scene in the dark early hours of Saturday around 2:30 AM. He is:
- Joshua Neal, 43
The driver, 36-year-old Lashay Tanae Rhodes was booked for:
- First degree manslaughter
- DUI: Driving under the influence of alcohol
- Speeding
- Wrong way on a one way road
Patrol officers with the Oklahoma City Police Department were sent to an area just east of the intersection of E. Sheridan and Lincoln Blvd Saturday around 2:30 AM after a person called to say she had been in a crash there.
When officers arrived they found Rhodes, who they assessed was “under the influence of some kind of intoxicant,” according to SSgt. Dillon Quirk with OKCPD.
Investigators at the scene estimate that the vehicle Rhodes was driving was “traveling at a very high rate of speed eastbound on East Sheridan Avenue in the [one-way] westbound portion of the road. That road eventually dead ended where the vehicle went over a barrier through a fence and ultimately landed on its side,” said Quirk.
Blood was drawn at the time and has been sent to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) lab for processing, which could take weeks according to Quirk.
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