Local police have charged an Illinois driver who hit and killed a pedestrian while livestreaming on TikTok.
According to The New York Times, Tynesha McCarty-Wroten, known as Tea Tyme on TikTok, faces two felony charges from the Zion Police Department—reckless homicide and aggravated use of a communications device resulting in death.
In a clip that has circulated on TikTok, McCarty-Wroten appears to be talking into her phone when a loud thud is heard. An offscreen child asks, “What was that?” to which she responds, “I hit somebody.”
Surveillance footage reportedly captured her vehicle entering the intersection during a red light, with investigators noting that she appeared to neither slow down nor alter her path before striking Darren Lucas, who later died at the hospital.
McCarty-Wroten’s attorney told The New York Times that the evidence will show “what happened was an accident, was a negligent act, but was not an intentional or reckless act.”
