A family has been left devastated after a grandmother and her two grandchildren were killed as a result of a high-speed car chase between police and a car thief. The body of the 6-year-old granddaughter was not found until several hours after the investigation was finished, according to the New York Daily News.
Dorothy Wright, 76, was killed driving her two grandchildren to church in a residential neighborhood in Georgia on Sunday morning, according to the Daily News. They were hit by an allegedly stolen vehicle whose driver was attempting to get away from police and drove straight through a stop sign, according to NBC News. The children were 12-year-old Cameron Cosner and 6-year-old Layla Partridge, according to the newspaper.
All three were killed at the scene, but Layla's body was not found until approximately 11 hours after the crash because it was ejected from the vehicle, the Daily News reported. She had not initially been reported as a victim in the incident until the deaths were reported to the family, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
"I saw that red car coming down the street, minding their business," a witness told reporters, according to the Daily News. "All of a sudden I saw that black car run a stop sign right here and hit them, T-boned them... Get that guy because he killed those people."
The driver of the vehicle, who is described as a black male, may have sustained injuries during the crash but has not yet been apprehended by police, according to the Daily News. Authorities suspected that he had stolen the car from a hotel in College Park before being chased to southwest Atlanta, reported the Journal Constitution.
The Georgia State Patrol is currently handling the case, but College Park Police Department Chief Kevin Meadows stated that it is being investigated whether officers were acting within the department's chase policy, according to Fox 5 News.
