Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Police in a Chicago suburb on Tuesday arrested a TikTok user who is acussed of livestreaming while running a red light and fatally colliding with a man ziowho was crossing the street.
Tynesha McCarty-Wroten, 43, of Zion, was charged with reckless homicide and aggravated use of a communication device causing death, the Lake and McHenry County Scanner reported.
The arrest of McCarty-Wroten, who uses the TikTok handle Tea_Tyme_3, comes over a month after Darren Lucas was fatally struck while crossing a street in Zion.
Zion Police Department Lt. Paul Kehrli told the news outlet that McCarty-Wroten remained at the scene, called 911 and was cooperative with investigators. She told investigators she had a green light at the time of the collision, but police later became aware of a video reportedly showing McCarty-Wroten running a red light, according to the news outlet.
"I just hit somebody," McCarty-Wroten reportedly says in the video after a loud thump, followed by cursing and a child's voice asking what happened.
