The charges stem from a June 25, 2020, crash that followed a report that the vehicle was stolen during an aggravated robbery, prosecutors said.
“When the deputies attempted to stop the vehicle, it struck a detective’s vehicle and fled,” a press release from the prosecutor’s office said. “The deputies followed the vehicle, which was driving extremely recklessly.”
The black 2006 Ford Five Hundred sedan crashed a short distance from where the pursuit began, hitting a house at the coroner of North Dixie Drive and Hillsdale Avenue in Harrison Twp., according to a Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office crash report.
“The defendant, who was the driver of the vehicle, attempted to flee but was quickly was taken into custody,” the prosecutor’s office said. “One of the passengers in the vehicle, later identified as 18‐year‐old Rodnesha Thompson was killed as a result of the crash. Two other passengers in the vehicle suffered minor injuries.”
Thompson was a Vandalia resident, reports stated.
Whitfield was arrested and booked Aug. 18 into the Montgomery County Jail awaiting his Aug. 26 arraignment.
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