Louisiana State Police released a video Tuesday responding to recent allegations concerning a fatal December crash in Thibodaux for which former LSU wide receiver Kyren Lacy was arrested.
Lacy’s attorney, Matthew Ory, appeared on a Houma TV show Friday and claimed that Lacy couldn’t have caused the crash because he was over 70 yards behind the collision.
Lacy took his life in Houston in January, days before he was set to appear in front of a grand jury.
The new LSP video contests Ory’s account.
The video claims Lacy was heading southbound and illegally passing in the northbound lane at a high speed before returning to the southbound lane about three seconds before the crash. The police maintain that the driver of a gold truck heading northbound then swerved off into the shoulder to avoid a head-on collision with Lacy’s green Charger, and the white car behind the gold truck also swerved into the southbound lane and collided with another vehicle.
“All evidence collected supports the conclusion that Lacy’s reckless operation of the green Charger into oncoming traffic triggered the chain of events involving the other drivers, ultimately resulting in the fatal crash,” the video’s narrator said. “In consideration of the high speed of the green Charger compared to the surrounding and opposing vehicles, the reaction time of the involved drivers was greatly diminished.”
In the video, a trooper’s bodycam footage shows that when he arrived on the scene, multiple witnesses said the green Charger caused the accident.
Ory also showed on Friday bodycam footage of a law enforcement official speaking to the driver of the gold truck and asking him to provide a written statement. In the video, the driver of the gold truck seems to tell the official that the driver behind him caused the crash by swerving into the other lane. The official then instructs him to “make sure you put you had to slam on your brakes to avoid that Charger.”
According to LSP’s video, the driver of the gold truck was not at the scene of the wreck when the trooper arrived and was interviewed later.
LSP also said that it obtained evidence proving Lacy’s first call 10 minutes after the crash occurred was to a personal defense attorney.
