Charging Documents: Man fled to North Carolina after collision killed 88-year-old woman
BALTIMORE -- A woman who saw her truck on the news following a deadly hit-and-run collision in Northwest Baltimore led police to the suspected killer: her boyfriend, according to charging documents.
Police arrested 56-year-old Tony Edmonds, of North Carolina, for reportedly driving away from a crash that killed 88-year-old Barbara Logan on August 14.
The collision happened between the truck Edmonds was driving and Logan's vehicle happened at the intersection of Liberty Heights Avenue and Callaway Avenue around 5:20 p.m. that day.
The owner of the vehicle walked into the police station in Northwest Baltimore to tell officers that she had been assisting a friend when her live-in boyfriend, Edmonds, came looking for her, according to charging documents.
She told officers that Edmonds all of a sudden said, "I got to go. I got to go. I need to get out of here." Then, he left in her truck, per court records.
The woman and Edmonds share a home in North Carolina, according to the charging documents.
Afterward, law enforcement officials began looking for the truck at their home in North Carolina. They were unable to find it, per court records.
That's because it had been sitting at a garage in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, according to charging documents.
Eventually, the woman circled back and told investigators that she and Edmonds would return to Baltimore for a voluntary interview, per court records.
Charging documents show that Edmonds spoke to police and told them that he was alone in the truck at the time of the collision, which occurred after he drove through a light that he believed to be green at the time.
He said that he did not see Logan's 'car until it was too late. After the collision, Edmonds became scared and left the area, per court records.
He, too, saw the news reports about the truck, which prompted him to go back to North Carolina, according to charging documents.
Edmonds has been charged with criminal neglect.
Logan was described by those who knew her as a dedicated "dog mom" to "Jeter," who often spent time working in a garden that outlines their apartment building, which is less than a mile from the crash site.
"I just wish that the family has healing and finds peace and comfort in knowing that he was captured," said Tahsheema Thomas told WJZ's Cristina Mendez.
Another one of Logan's neighbors said there was some comfort in knowing the girlfriend of Edmonds had come forward to help police in their investigation.
"I know it might have been a hard thing for her, but at the same time, if you do a crime, you have to face the consequences behind that," Shakeerah Bryant said.