A 22-year-old man accused of aggressive driving suffered a horrific fate just half an hour after filming an illegal street scene.
Antoine Hampton recorded the shot in Memphis, Tennessee, on Sunday and shared it on his Facebook.
It showed the self-proclaimed content creator recording cars revving their engines and doing donuts in the middle of a busy street, while Hampton gave a thumbs down and told a friend “this is s***.”
He and his friends were clearly standing in front of a speed limit sign, showing that the limit was only 40mph as cars sped by, leaving smoke in their wake, while other drivers tried to avoid them.
Just a half-hour after the video was taken, Memphis police said Hampton crashed his Infiniti QX70 into a Lexus SUV, killing him, the other driver, former teacher Lachell Boyd, 51, and his passenger, Terry Baggett, 51.
Antoine Hampton, 22, died Sunday when police say he was driving “aggressively” and crashed his SUV into a woman’s Lexus.
Police said Hampton drove “aggressively” and was “careless, reckless” and traveling over the speed limit when he crashed his SUV into Boyd’s Lexus as she was making a left turn onto Hickory Hill Road around 8 p.m. according to WREG.
She was just feet from her home and was turning into her subdivision near Sunny Morning Drive, returning home after grabbing supplies to help a relative at the time.
Boyd, Baggett and Hampton were pronounced dead at the smoke-filled scene.
Four others were taken to Regional Hospital One in critical condition and one child was taken to Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in non-critical condition. ABC 24 report.
About half an hour before the fatal crash, Hampton had filmed himself taking over a street.
His video showed cars revving their engines and doing donuts in the middle of a busy street.
“It was a big mess,” said neighbor Tanya Allen. told to Fox 13 of the fatal collision. ‘The cars were wrecked and horns were blaring.’
Stacy Edwards also said she heard cars speeding by on Hickory Hill Road, “but the last time I heard it was a big boom.”
She said she immediately knew something was wrong.
“I told my mom, ‘That didn’t sound right. That really doesn’t sound right,'” Edwards said. he told WREG.
Both women said drag racing has become a major problem in the area, with Allen noting that the cars “are very fast and out of control.”
“If you go that fast, it can cause death, and it did,” he said, arguing that speed control on the highway does nothing to deter drivers from exceeding the limit.
“They drive like crazy and it’s very scary.”
Former teacher Lachell Boyd, 51 (pictured), was driving home when she died in the collision.
Hampton, Boyd and their passenger, Terry Baggett, 51, were killed in the collision.
Some residents now argue that more needs to be done to deter drag racing in the area; Bennie Cobb, a retired captain with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, says there needs to be more severe and swift consequences.
“There will have to be some kind of immediate and severe punishment to set an example for offenders who operate these missiles,” he said.
“We’re going to have to make some kind of urgent decision and call in the big guns,” Cobb said, suggesting police use helicopters and drones to identify where street takeovers are taking place and make public what happens to offenders.
But in the meantime, police are searching for witnesses to the fatal crash and others involved in the reckless driving that day.
They are also searching for six vehicles they say left the scene of the collision.
