A 22 year-old DeSoto man has been charged with a murder after a Cedar Hill car accident that killed a woman just before midnight February 4. It began with a Duncanville officer attempting to pull Tyrone Lee Sims II over for a defective headlight.
As the officer was approaching the suspect’s vehicle, the suspect fled heading south toward the intersection of Wintergreen Road and Duncanville Road.
The officer returned to his patrol car and drove towards where Sims fled and witnessed both the suspect’s and victim’s car spinning out of control. Both had been heading south on Duncanville Road and collided when Sims passed another vehicle and hit the victim while she was turning east in the 1400 block Wintergreen Road.
Sims was initially charged with evading arrest and detention. The charges were upgraded because while in the act of committing a felony, Sims caused the death of another person.
He was driving a dark blue Chevy Tahoe when he collided with the victim, a 21 year-old Gladys Isela Barrientos, of DeSoto,who was driving a white Honda Civic. She was transported to Charlton Methodist Hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Sims was not injured in the crash and did not appear to be intoxicated at the time of his arrest. However, officers did find an empty beer can outside of his vehicle. As a result, a toxicology report has been ordered to verify whether alcohol was a factor in the collision.