As an investigation into the incident continues, the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office has released the name of the Florida woman struck by a car and killed on M-59 while she was reportedly running from police.
Ashley Latrice Hamm, 30, of Lauderhill, Florida, was one of three suspects in a string of larcenies from cars identified by investigators and targeted for arrest in Rochester Hills, police said. While officers were taking them into custody at around 7:30 a.m. on March 15, Hamm reportedly fled and was hit by the vehicle. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The fatality was initially investigated as a hit-and-run because the driver didn’t stop, but he later turned himself in at the Oakland County Sheriff’s Rochester Hills substation. The sheriff’s office said the driver, a 42-year-old man from Macomb, was cooperating with officers in the investigation. At the substation, he reportedly told deputies that he thought he had hit debris in the roadway but subsequently learned someone had been struck and killed.
The two men Hamm had been with, Florida residents Danarius Young, 28, and Chauncey Franklin, 21, are in the Oakland County Jail, charged with two counts each of breaking and entering a vehicle-with damage. They also have a pending case out of Macomb, accused of conducting a criminal enterprise.
Verdict in for man accused of killing coworker outside his home
Lake Orion’s police chief steps down for undisclosed reasons