The families of an Ohio mother and her boyfriend are grieving after the couple was killed by a suspected drunk driver who crashed into their vehicle following a high-speed police chase.
Meagan Spurgeon, 30, and Joshua Turza, 32, were killed on June 9 on a Kentucky highway shortly after they dropped off Spurgeon's 7-year-old daughter, AnnaStella, at summer camp and were headed home, WJW-TV reported.
"Our lives will never be the same when Meagan, a beloved daughter, mother, and friend, was taken from us far too soon," Spurgeon's family wrote on a GoFundMe page raising funds for her daughter.
The pair had dropped off AnnaStella and were driving home when the Kentucky State Police were chasing a black BMW at speeds reaching 100 mph. The trooper lost sight of the vehicle and stopped the pursuit, the station reported.
A short time later, the trooper came upon the BMW after it had crashed into Spurgeon and Turza's KIA.
State police estimate the driver of the BMW, identified as Jody Miller, was traveling at speeds near 150 mph when he hit their car, WJW reported.
The couple were declared dead at the scene.
"I don't stop crying, I wake up crying," Darla Larson-Spurgeon told the station.
"He was going so fast they couldn't catch him, and the next thing that happened was her cell phone pinged that they'd been in a crash," Larson-Spurgeon said.
"Officers arrived and the car was already totally engulfed in flames and there was nothing they could do," she said.
Miller, 47, of Cincinnati, was arrested at the scene and charged with vehicular homicide while under the influence of alcohol, wanton endangerment, speeding, fleeing and evading. He is being held on $1 million bond in Kentucky.
