The disturbance happened in the area of Siebenthaler and Philadelphia avenues, and continued to a crash scene at the intersection of West Grand and Forest avenues.
According to eyewitnesses, the defendant’s vehicle crossed the center line and was traveling at a high rate of speed when it ran through a red light and struck a pickup truck at the intersection, according to a media release.
Anthony Juan Foreman, 60, a passenger in the truck later died at a hospital.
A second victim, a passenger in the defendant’s vehicle, was five months pregnant. She suffered serious injuries and her unborn fetus died from injuries he sustained in the crash, according to a release.
Scales will be sentenced Jan. 10, 2017, where she’s expected to also enter a guilty plea to an additional count of vehicular assault for the driver of the pickup truck that was seriously injured.
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