A Texas woman allegedly crashed through a cordoned-off crime scene and ran over the body of an already dead victim with her car, according to authorities and reports.
The 61-year-old victim was first clipped by a car’s side mirror near State Highway 211 and subsequently hit by a second driver as he lay on the roadway on Feb. 27, Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said at a press conference.
He was pronounced dead at the scene and his body was covered with a sheet, while cops closed off the street to traffic.
Soon after, 26-year-old Tionne Spears allegedly mowed through the barricaded area and plowed over the man’s corpse.
Spears also nearly hit two deputies who were on the scene investigating the incident, Salazar said. Nobody else was injured during the erratic crash.
Deputies suspect she was intoxicated and found that she was in possession of khat, a stimulant plant native to Africa that can lower one’s pain tolerance.
The drug “does have some extremely measurable effects on the human body,” Salazar told reporters.
Investigators are awaiting the results of a toxicology test to confirm whether Spears had the drug in her system or was taking any other substances when she barreled through the crime scene, police added.
Both drivers who initially hit the 61-year-old man remained on scene, and no criminal wrongdoing is suspected in their cases, the sheriff confirmed.
Spears was booked into the Bexar County Adult Detention Center and charged with driving while intoxicated, abuse of a corpse, and possession of a controlled substance, authorities added.
“I’ve been doing this job 33 years now and never heard of somebody barreling through a crime scene like that and running over a dead body that’s already on the roadway,” Salazar told reporters.
It’s not immediately clear why the man was on the roadway when he was hit. A black Chrysler 300 registered to him was found near the scene, police said.
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