At the time of the crash, McCarty-Wroten called 911 and told responding officers the traffic light had been green when she passed through the intersection.<\/p>\n
She was not charged with any offences following a clean alcohol and drug test.<\/p>\n
Darren Lucas was tragically struck and killed in November as he walked home from his job in a local grocery store. Photo \/ Christopher King<\/p>\n
Three days after the accident, the woman asked her followers to help her while she was on \u201cmental leave\u201d by donating to her CashApp.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know I don\u2019t like asking y\u2019all for s***, but if y\u2019all \u2026 find it in y\u2019all\u2019s heart and y\u2019all wanna support, my CashApp is right there,\u201d she said in a video posted to TikTok. <\/p>\n
But a screen recording that purportedly captured McCarty-Wroten\u2019s livestream of the accident began circulating on TikTok on November 7, ABC 7 reported.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the days following the crash, numerous members of the public reached out to Zion Investigators to inform them of a TikTok video that allegedly showed Ms McCarty-Wroten livestreaming herself driving at the time of the crash,\u201d Zion police confirmed in a statement.<\/p>\n
Investigators quickly confirmed the authenticity of the clip and pulled surveillance footage that showed the traffic light was red at the time of the collision.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe video was preserved and verified through extensive investigation, including the execution of multiple search warrants and analysis of electronic data.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the video, McCarty-Wroten can reportedly be heard saying \u201cI just hit somebody\u201d before she abruptly ends the stream.<\/p>\n
A GoFundMe for Lucas\u2019s widow has been started by their son-in-law Christopher King, who wrote that the family were \u201cdevastated\u201d by the loss of their \u201c1 in a billion\u201d patriarch.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know he would really want his everything to not have to worry so much about the future, especially without him by her side.\u201d<\/p>\n
Almost US$4000 ($6860) has been raised already.<\/p>\n
King told the Guardian \u201cthe family and myself are glad to see the wheels of justice moving\u201d in relation to McCarty-Wroten\u2018s arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the time of the crash, McCarty-Wroten called 911 and told responding officers the traffic light had been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,2724,31036,124706,33489,9948,33445,42607,2082,21436,42,20557,16791,296,119315,440,300,43,33551,124707,2735,3291,613,80667,40,38,41,39,3040,6123,1354],"class_list":["post-203778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-app","tag-asks","tag-begged","tag-donations","tag-employee","tag-fatally","tag-followers","tag-for","tag-grocery","tag-headlines","tag-hitting","tag-illinois","tag-into","tag-livestreaming","tag-local","tag-money","tag-news","tag-pedestrian","tag-ploughed","tag-store","tag-streaming","tag-tiktok","tag-tiktoker","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us","tag-while","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}