ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) – New details have emerged in the investigation of a North St. Louis car crash that killed 26-year-old Washington University Ph.D. student Kennedy Reed.
On Thursday, First Alert 4 cameras were at the police department as the owner of the vehicle involved in the crash voluntarily submitted a DNA sample to investigators, a move her attorney says will prove she was not the person behind the wheel.
“She was not driving”
Reed, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate studying Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis at the Washington University School of Medicine, died on Aug. 4. Investigators say a driver ran a stop sign at North Euclid Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive, crashing into Reed’s car.
The vehicle that struck Reed’s car was a BMW. Its owner was present at the crash site but was not the driver, according to her defense attorney, David Rosener…