Overview
- Tynesha McCarty-Wroten, 43, known on TikTok as Tea Tyme, faces felony counts of reckless homicide and aggravated use of an electronic communications device resulting in death.
- Investigators say surveillance video shows her vehicle entering a Zion intersection against a red light without slowing before striking Darren Lucas, 59, who later died at a hospital.
- Police recovered a preserved TikTok livestream, and phone forensics matched the recording to the crash time after her attorney surrendered the device.
- An 8-year-old child was in the car, and in clips reshared on TikTok a child is heard as McCarty-Wroten says, “I hit somebody,” according to police and media reports.
- She was arrested on a warrant on Dec. 23 and later released pending trial, with a court date set for Jan. 27, as her lawyer argues the collision was a negligent accident rather than reckless.