Tasha Thomas, the woman falsely accused of helping John Crawford III bring a gun into an Ohio Walmart last August, was killed when she was ejected from a car in Dayton on New Year’s Day

A woman killed in a crash near Dayton on Thursday afternoon was the girlfriend of John Crawford III, the man fatally shot by police inside the Beavercreek Walmart last August. The Dayton Police Department says that speeding led to the car accident, and that both occupants were ejected from a gray Pontiac after it hit a pole. A second passenger, Frederick Bailey, 30, was also killed. Tasha Thomas was pronounced dead at the scene. Bailey was transported to Miami Valley Hospital, where he later died from his injuries, police said.

Tasha Thomas, 26, of Fairborn, was the woman on the phone with Crawford when he was shot and killed by a police officer on August 5th of last year. Crawford was shot by an officer as he walked around the Walmart holding what turned out to be an air rifle, as he was talking with Ms. Thomas on his cell. Police said he didn’t obey commands to put the rifle down, which had been taken off the store’s shelf.

In September, a special grand jury in Xenia, Ohio, found the police involved were justified in the shooting of Crawford. The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to investigate possible civil rights violations in the case.

Watch the emotional interrogation of Tasha Thomas by Detective Rodney Curd below…

-Infinite Wiz (@InfiniteWiz)