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Late LSU WR Kyren Lacy didn’t cause fatal accident, attorney says | |
Story by Reuters | |
Updated: | |
11:46 AM EDT, Sat October 4, 2025 | |
Source: Reuters | |
An attorney for the late , the former LSU wide receiver who in April | |
after he was charged with negligent homicide and felony hit-and-run, | |
said Friday that Lacy’s car was far behind the accident at the time | |
of impact. | |
Speaking over a surveillance video that caught the December 17, 2024, | |
collision in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, attorney Matt Ory told Homa, | |
La., TV station HTV10 that Lacy’s car was so far behind the | |
collision, it was not visible in the video at the time of the accident. | |
“We know from data that Kyren Lacy did in fact pass four cars, | |
there’s no disputing that. Further north, Kyren Lacy passed four | |
cars,” Ory said. | |
“However, he was back in his lane of travel, 92.3 yards – back in | |
his lane – behind (the car occupying the man killed in the crash). | |
… He’s 72.6 yards behind the vehicles at the time of impact. Key | |
word, behind the vehicles. That is not how this story was ever painted. | |
Never.” | |
According to reports, police alleged Lacy crossed a center line in an | |
attempt to pass slower vehicles, which caused a pickup truck driver to | |
brake and swerve to avoid Lacy’s car. Another vehicle then allegedly | |
swerved to avoid the pickup and crossed the center line, crashing | |
head-on with a vehicle containing Herman Hall, 78. Hall later died at a | |
hospital. | |
The video depicts an SUV colliding head-on with another vehicle (part | |
of the collision is obscured by a parked vehicle) with a vehicle behind | |
the SUV coming to a stop. Nearly four seconds later, a car identified | |
by Ory as the one driven by Lacy appears in the camera, slows down and | |
appears to go around the accident. | |
Lacy was later charged with negligent homicide, felony hit-and-run with | |
death and reckless operation of a vehicle and surrendered to police in | |
mid-January. | |
On the night of April 12, two days ahead of his scheduled grand-jury | |
appearance, Lacy, 24, led authorities on a pursuit before crashing in | |
Spring, Texas. When deputies removed Lacy from the car to take him into | |
custody, they found him with the gunshot wound and he was pronounced | |
dead at the scene by emergency responders, the Harris County | |
Sheriff’s Office said. | |
Lacy, a native of Thibodaux, Louisiana, caught 58 passes for 866 yards | |
and shared the Southeastern Conference lead with nine touchdown | |
receptions in 12 games in 2024. | |
He finished his collegiate career with 162 catches for 2,360 yards and | |
26 touchdowns in 64 games with Louisiana (2020-21) and LSU (2022-24). | |
Largely viewed as an NFL prospect, Lacy’s name was not on the list of | |
players invited to the NFL Scouting Combine when it was released in | |
mid-February, a month after Lacy’s arrest. | |
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