Fatal Encounters

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Rachel Bonds

Name: Rachel Bonds
Age: 40
Gender: Female
Race: African-American/Black
Date: 02/26/2019
Location: Woodbury Pike and Ringwald Road
Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 37130
County: Rutherford
Agency: Murfreesboro Police Department
Cause of Death: Vehicle
Intended Use of Force: Vehic/Purs
Media summary: Murfreesboro police responded around 1:30 a.m. to a call of a domestic situation in a moving vehicle. The caller, a passenger, told a dispatcher that she had been assaulted, and Joshua Williams, the driver, refused to stop the vehicle. An officer spotted the vehicle, and Williams went off the road and behind a house. As the officer walked toward the back of the home, Williams, 39, drove back onto the road. Williams reportedly drove straight through a left-hand curve in the road and hit a power pole head-on, causing the vehicle to rotate and hit a second pole on the front passenger-side door, killing a passenger, Rachel Bonds. Williams was booked into the Rutherford County jail on charges of vehicular homicide, reckless endangerment and leaving the scene of a fatal crash.
Unique ID: 25743

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