Body cam footage released from fatal car crash involving Jalen Carter
Former Georgia defensive lineman and future NFL draft pick Jalen Carter was recently investigated for his role in a car crash that killed former teammate Devin Willock and football staffer Chandler LeCroy.
According to reports, Carter and LeCroy were racing when the fatal crash ultimately occurred and police looked in to whether Carter could or should be held responsible for being involved in a street racing situation that resulted in deaths.
The latest update in this story is the release of footage from the night of the crash. On twitter, a video leaked of the body cam of one of the police officers who arrived on the scene and spoke with one of the Georgia players.
You can watch that clip below:
In the video, the officer talks with Jalen Carter alone and then two other Georgia players who arrived on the scene after Carter had called them and told them to come after the wreck. The officer double checked that it was Carter who first saw the wreck and made the call and then went and talked with him.
Carter said he was driving behind the other car when they had the wreck, and the officer asked him how far away he’d been, even joking with Carter by asking him to “put it in yards for me.” Even after being coaxed into giving a football-field-sized estimation, Carter still couldn’t really gauge how far away he had been. Each time the officer tried to come up with a new way to ask him how far away his car was from the other car at the time of the crash, Jalen Carter just refused to answer and said he didn’t know.
The beginning of that video clip above actually seems to show a part of the Carter interview that occurs after the initial exchange. The officer asks Carter point blank if he was racing, noting that the damages to the other car appear to have come at a high rate of speed. But Carter insisted he was not racing.
So, make of that what you will. Just another development in a tragic and awful story that’s now found its way to the forefront of NFL Draft discussion.
Carter was once in contention to go as high as No. 1 overall before Chicago traded their pick — and that would’ve made back-to-back top picks off a pair of Georgia defenses that won national titles. Instead, Carter looks likely to fall a little bit as his situation gets messier while other teams are trading up and talking themselves into the cycle’s crop of quarterbacks.