Prosecutors will on Thursday begin to present evidence to a jury in the case of a woman who authorities accuse of being drunk when she drove the wrong way on a Fort Worth interstate exit ramp and struck and killed with a sedan a police sergeant.
Fort Worth Police Department Sgt. Billy Randolph was standing outside his vehicle at the scene of an 18-wheeler crash and fire when he was hit in August 2024.
Fort Worth police Sgt. Billy Randolph was killed in the line of duty on Aug. 12, 2024, when he was struck by a suspected drunken driver on Interstate 35W. Fort Worth Police Department
A jury in Criminal District Court No. 2 in Tarrant County will consider witness testimony and exhibits in the case of De Aujalae Evans, who was indicted on intoxicated manslaughter of a peace officer in Sgt. Randolph’s death.
An attempt in December to seat a jury in the case was unsuccessful. A second attempt to select a jury has been underway since Monday.
Randolph, who was 56 and a 29-year veteran of the Fort Worth department, was standing on the ramp from Interstate 35W to Sycamore School Road when the 2020 Nissan Versa that Evans was driving hit him, police said.
Evans told police that she drank 10 shots between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. before the 5:30 a.m. crash, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
Evans had a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.12 at the time of a test after the crash. Police obtained a warrant to test a sample of her blood.
Evans continued to drive about a quarter-mile after the car she was driving hit Randolph and then got out of the sedan and ran, according to police. She jumped over a wall and ran toward a Motel 6, and officers arrested her in the motel parking lot, according to the affidavit.
Evans, who is 26, shot her girlfriend in 2023 and was on probation at the time of the crash. She pleaded guilty to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Community members join in prayer for the late Fort Worth Police Department Sgt. Billy Randolph during his honorary candlelit vigil at the Fort Worth PD South Division headquarters on Aug. 14, 2024. Sgt. Randolph was struck by a car while working a crash scene on the exit ramp of I-35W near Sycamore School Road. Chris Torres ctorres@star-telegram.com
This story was originally published March 25, 2026 at 5:19 PM.
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Emerson Clarridge covers crime and other breaking news for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He works days and reports on law enforcement affairs in Tarrant County. He previously was a reporter at the Omaha World-Herald and the Observer-Dispatch in Utica, New York.