CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The former area resident who is facing three murder charges following a fatal motor-vehicle crash, was taken to jail after his release from the hospital Wednesday, according to news reports.
Police suspect that Tyler S. Stasko, 20, a graduate of Edgewood Senior High School, was drag racing Saturday when he slammed into a car pulling out from a housing development on N.C. Route 49. The crash killed a mother and her 2-year-old daughter, according to news reports.
Stasko has been charged with three counts of second-degree murder in conjunction with the deaths of the mother and daughter, and a passenger in his car.
Stasko, who moved with his family to Matthews, N.C., after his high school graduation in 2007, was racing a 2005 Mitsubishi Eclipse when it broadsided the Mercedes Benz being driven by Winthrop University professor Cynthia Furr, 45, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said. She died at the scene. Her daughter McAllister Price, 2, died shortly afterward.
Hunter Holt, 13, of Clover, S.C., one of two passengers in Stasko’s vehicle, died Sunday. The popular eighth-grade student’s funeral on Wednesday drew a crowd of 700 people, according to news reports.
The other teenage boy in Stasko’s vehicle was injured but survived the crash, police said.
Stasko was giving Holt and the other boy a ride home from Carowinds amusement park, which is located on the North Carolina-South Carolina state line. Stasko was injured seriously in the crash and was hospitalized at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte. He was released Wednesday, arrested and taken to the Mecklenburg County Jail, according to news reports.
Witnesses said he was driving about 80 mph when he hit Furr’s car, according to news reports.
The driver of the Camaro who, witnesses said, was racing Stasko on N.C. 49, is being investigated, but no charges had been filed against her as of Thursday afternoon, according to news reports.
The real-estate developer in the neighborhood where the accident occurred handed the North Carolina Department of Transportation a check for $220,000 Wednesday to install a traffic light at the intersection, according to news reports.
A member of the homeowners association told WSOC-TV in Charlotte that a crest on N.C. 49 makes it difficult for drivers to see.
The Rock Hill (S.C.) Herald and WSOC-TV provided information for this story.
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