{"id":388531,"date":"2026-07-06T23:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T23:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/388531\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T23:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T23:39:08","slug":"virginia-man-charged-with-murder-in-crash-that-killed-family-of-4-on-i-75-in-oakland-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/388531\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia man charged with murder in crash that killed family of 4 on I-75 in Oakland County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Virginia man has been charged with murder in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/detroit\/news\/4-dead-in-aftermath-of-crash-on-i-75-in-oakland-county-state-police-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">crash that killed a family of four<\/a>\u00a0on I-75 in Oakland County earlier this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Charles Dean Pace, 27, of Glen Allen, Virginia, is charged with four counts of second-degree murder and four counts of operating while intoxicated causing death, according to the Oakland County Prosecutor&#8217;s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened around 9:10 p.m. on July 1 on southbound I-75 near East Holly Road in Springfield Township.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors allege Pace was driving a Ford F-250 truck on the southbound lanes at a high speed, exceeding 90 miles per hour, while weaving in and out of lanes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pace&#8217;s truck struck a disabled Chrysler 300 on the side of the road, killing its occupants, a family of four: 23-year-old Zakeria Sharon Dodson, 24-year-old Tieree Powell, 3-year-old Nalani Powell, and 2-year-old Karter Powell. Pace&#8217;s blood alcohol level was more than three times the legal limit, according to prosecutors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Zakeria, Tieree, Nalani and Karter did not die in an accident,&#8221; said Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald. &#8220;They were murdered because of this defendant&#8217;s alleged choices \u2014 to drive drunk, to drive fast and to drive recklessly \u2014 that created an obvious and unnecessary danger. &#8220;This is a rare charge, but we believe we can show the most extreme indifference to human life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pace is expected to be arraigned on Tuesday in the 52-2 District Court in Clarkston, according to prosecutors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If convicted on second-degree murder charges, Pace faces up to life in prison, while a charge of operating while intoxicated causing a death carries a sentence of up to 15 years in prison and\/or a $10,000 fine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Virginia man has been charged with murder in a crash that killed a family of four\u00a0on I-75&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[16931,8296,3441,143,92475,145,144,14424],"class_list":["post-388531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-drunk-driving","tag-fatal-crash","tag-i-75","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county-prosecutor039s-office","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}