According to WBIR-TV, one teenager died in a Nashville car accident after he was accused of stealing a vehicle, along with two other people, on December 24.
WBIR reported that Kristopher Howard, 16, of Clifton Avenue, was partially ejected from a stolen vehicle following a police chase. The station reported that Howard, Derrick Thomas, 16, and Carmilla Ellison, 36, robbed a person at gunpoint attending a Christmas party of her purse and car keys.
They then took her 2011 Toyota Corolla, which began a police pursuit. About two minutes after police began to chase the suspects, the driver, Thomas, crashed the vehicle into a parked pickup and into the side of a house near the 1800 block of Jefferson Street.
Howard died in the crash. Thomas was treated for injuries at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and was released. He faces charges of vehicular homicide, vehicular assault, evading police, driving without a license, curfew violation and auto theft.
Ellison was also treated for injuries at Vanderbilt. She will be booked into jail upon her release from the hospital on charges of auto theft and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
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