CHARLOTTE, N.C. ( QUEEN CITY NEWS ) — Three years ago, a Charlotte family’s world was turned upside down.
“Just like that, he’s gone,” Anthony Williams Jr. told Queen City News.
His father, 60-year-old Anthony Williams, was driving on Tom Hunter Road to visit his kids when he was hit head on by a man, police say, who was evading officers in a stolen Toyota Highlander. Williams suffered catastrophic injuries: a broken back, broken neck and broken ribs.
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He went through grueling rehab, and it seemed as if he would recover, but on April 21, 2021, he suddenly collapsed, and died the next day.
“It’s hard cause we see, like a family just lost a life in another police chase in Charlotte,” he said, “and I got to relive it every day like I got to get justice for my father. I can’t stop.”
The medical examiner determined the underlying cause was a blood clot as a result of the crash.
A Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police release about the crash in 2021 states the driver of the Toyota fled the scene but was apprehended a short time later. Officers in a CMPD helicopter, tracking the SUV from above, witnessed the whole thing.