A woman was killed in a stolen car crash in Southeast Dallas over the weekend.
The suspect survived that crash and is charged with murder. The victim was a backseat passenger in the car when it was stolen from a gas station.
Before the crash, police say the car was going over 200 miles an hour.
Officers found the wrecked vehicle just before 11 a.m. Sunday along Murdock Road, South of the CF Hawn Freeway.
According to an arrest warrant affidavit, Darion Thomas told investigators he was inside a gas station when he saw two people get out of a car and walk in.
Thomas walked out to see if the car was still running. Since it was, he stole it, police say. And when he was driving off, he realized someone was in the back seat. A minute later, that woman was dead.
Pieces of debris lying in the road mark the spot where a deadly car crash came to an end Sunday morning in Southeast Dallas.
Mireya Diaz lives nearby right where Murdock Road makes a sharp curve turning into Dowdy Ferry Road.
“We came out here to see, saw the car out here pretty mangled,” she recalled. “There was a good amount of cop car presence out here.”
According to Dallas police, Darion Thomas stole a black Honda Accord from the parking lot of a Fox gas station a mile away on Murdock Road.
Police say the owner of the car and her husband went inside the gas station but left the car running with a friend lying down inside.
“What we know at this point is he stole the vehicle from a nearby business with the victim in the back seat, and then he sped away and crashed hitting a pole,” explained Jesse Carr with the Dallas Police Department.
A security camera from a nearby home on Murdock Road captured the car speed by before crashing into a power pole. It shows the car burst into flames upon impact.
“The girl, unfortunately, was out in the street, and people were still trying to pass by,” Diaz said.
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