DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) — A Durham teacher and her husband are dead after their Lyft driver crashed into a warehouse in Detroit last weekend, officials said Thursday.
According to the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office in Michigan, Detroit police officers responded on Feb. 22 at around 10:15 a.m. to a crash in the 6000 block of Rosa Parks Boulevard. The officers found a vehicle that struck the loading dock door of a warehouse with two unresponsive passengers trapped inside.
The passengers were identified as 57-year-old Carla Boynton and her husband, 60-year-old Andre Boynton, both of Durham. They were pronounced dead at the scene, according to county prosecutors.
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County prosecutors said the driver was identified as 40-year-old Theopris Mays of Herndon, Va., who was working for Lyft at the time of the incident.
Mays is accused of driving recklessly at a high rate of speed before losing control and crashing into the warehouse, which killed the Boyntons. He is also accused of fleeing the scene on foot before he was taken into custody by Detroit police…