CHARLOTTE, N.C., April 7 (UPI) -- A crash that killed three people, including a woman and her toddler daughter, was caused by a high-speed street race, police in North Carolina said Tuesday.
One of the drivers allegedly involved in the race was critically injured, The Charlotte Observer reported. Tyler Stasko, 20, charged with three counts of second-degree murder, was in intensive care under police guard.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say that Stasko was at the wheel of Mitsubishi Eclipse and racing a dark-colored Camaro on State Route 49 near the South Carolina line Saturday night, when he struck a Mercedes driven by Cynthia Furr, an assistant professor at Winthrop University. Furr, her 2-year-old daughter, McAllister, and Hunter Holt, 13, one of two passengers in Stasko's car, were all killed in the crash.
Deputy Police Chief Harold Medlock said that witnesses described the racers as going faster than 80 mph. Furr turned into the highway from the RiverPointe neighborhood.
Police have seized a Camaro belonging to Carlene Carol Atkinson, 49, of York County in South Carolina. She had not been charged as of Tuesday morning.
