UPDATE:
The coroner has identified the man killed in the Scott County crash as 46-year-old David Jonathan Jett of Georgetown.
According to officials, he was pronounced dead at the scene and his body has been taken to the medical examiner's office for an autopsy.
The coroner is waiting for the preliminary report, but suspects blunt force trauma as the cause of death.
ORIGINAL:
A man is charged with manslaughter after a deadly crash in Scott County early Tuesday.
Authorities say officers with the Georgetown Police Department were attempting to pull over a vehicle operated by Deionta Catlett. According to a preliminary investigation, police say Catlett was driving on the wrong side of the roadway and was fleeing police when his vehicle crashed. Police say there was a head-on collision with another driver and that driver was killed.
Police say Catlett had multiple opportunities to pull over his vehicle while fleeing away from officers and "operated his vehicle in a manner which [showed] no regard to human life." The Scott County Sheriff's Office says he also consciously disregarded "a substantial and unjustifiable risk to public safety."
Catlett is being charged with second-degree manslaughter. According to the jail website, Catlett is also facing several other charges, including reckless driving, fleeing/evading police (1st degree), and operating while on a suspended or revoked driver's license.
Georgetown Police say this is the driver involved in this morning’s fatal crash. A long list of charges, so far @LEX18News pic.twitter.com/cxDkSuZQuD
— Leigh Searcy (@LSearcLex) May 30, 2023
The investigation is underway and is being conducted by the Scott County Sheriff's Office.
