KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A judge on Wednesday set a bond amount for Eleasah Williams, who is facing a vehicular homicide with recklessness charge after a car crashed into an assisted living facility.
According to Knoxville Police, 24-year-old Williams drove her minivan into Shannondale Assisted Living Facility on Middlebrook Pike early Saturday. A resident at the facility, 96-year-old Walter Humphrey, was killed in the crash.
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Shortly before the crash, police responded to a disturbance on Woodview Lane. An arriving officer was told that Williams was “suicidal and homicidal” and that she “wanted to kill herself and other people,” court records said. After the crash, she said she was attempting suicide.
“Comments like that are very significant in terms of, is that conduct that would reasonably place third parties in an expectation of fear, serious bodily harm, injury or death,” Isaacs said.
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Isaacs thinks Williams’s mental state will be the focus of the case, and it’s likely her lawyers will bring in mental health experts to conduct mental health evaluations…