Woman runs over, kills boyfriend outside Indy bar, cops say

A woman was formally charged on Thursday, June 9, right after investigators say she tracked down her boyfriend employing an AirTag and ran him in excess of outside an Indiana bar.

Andre Smith, 26, was pronounced lifeless outside the house Tilly’s Pub in Indianapolis at 12:56 a.m. on Friday, June 3, in accordance to a possible lead to affidavit received by McClatchy News. Gaylyn Morris, the 26-12 months-old female who authorities mentioned suspected her boyfriend was cheating on her, was charged with vehicular homicide.

Investigators claimed they interviewed numerous witnesses to the deadly incident, such as some who noticed Morris confront Smith inside the bar. Morris, Smith and a girl Smith was with were all thrown out of the bar when they had been included in a confrontation, an Indianapolis law enforcement detective reported in the affidavit.

A witness who was inside the bar stated she watched the 3 depart, then observed Morris clip Smith with her Chevy Impala. Morris backed up and struck him yet again, in accordance to court paperwork.

“Gaylyn Morris was driving slow and purposeful, but after she acquired to Andre Smith, she hit the gas, and Smith fell about and was on the floor,” the witness reported, in accordance to police. “(The witness) noticed her back up about him and then go back again about to him yet again. She could listen to the crunching audio and saw the auto heading up as if heading around a hump.”

“His head is beneath your wheel, really do not transfer,” a lady is read saying in video clip received by law enforcement.

Smith’s human body was totally less than the auto and his head was “completely operate more than by the driver’s side tire,” a witness stated, according to police.

A June 3 autopsy unveiled Smith died from traumatic asphyxia, police reported.

Morris allegedly applied an AirTag to discover Smith

In advance of the lethal collision, two witnesses listened to Morris notify Smith she had tracked him down by way of an AirTag she had set up in his auto, law enforcement claimed. AirTags are compact button-shaped tracking units applied to monitor down Apple products and to “keep up with mates and family.”

Morris was taken into custody outdoors the bar and in the beginning advised law enforcement she did not have a tracker in Smith’s auto. She later recanted her statement, telling the detective she put an AirTag “in the backseat of his auto in the vicinity of the cup holder,” according to the affidavit.

Police mentioned Morris admitted to placing Smith with her automobile, “but explained she didn’t signify for him to go underneath her car or truck.” Her intention, she advised law enforcement, was to strike the lady who was with her boyfriend.

Morris continues to be in the Indianapolis jail as of Friday. Her up coming court docket appearance is scheduled for June 23.

Reneka Working day, Smith’s aunt, reported the dying of her nephew “replays each time I blink,” in accordance to Wish-Tv.

“Those tracking devices should not be made use of by the general public. They ought to not be out there to the community. They need to only be utilized for hospitals and regulation.”

This story was initially released June 9, 2022 1:36 PM.