ATLANTA — The godmother of a young woman killed during a police chase in Atlanta told Channel 2 Action News her loved one was begging the driver to stop his car when they crashed down an embankment off I-85.
We told you about this deadly crash on Sunday. It happened early that morning on the northbound exit for North Druid Hills Road.
Atlanta police said the officer tried to pull over the driver, headed southbound on I-75 at 17th Street, but investigators said the driver refused to stop. According to police, he exited at Fulton Street but then got back on the interstate and headed north, with state troopers on his tail.
The chase continued on I-85 north until the driver exited on North Druid Hills Road. Investigators said as he rounded a a curve, he lost control of his car and crashed into the guardrail before plunging down an embankment.
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Family members of Jazmin Jeanty, the 25-year-old woman who died, are still in shock and trying to understand how a night out with friends could end in tragedy.
They said she was on the phone with her mother begging the driver to stop before they crashed down the embankment
“Jazmin called her mother. She called her mom, while all this is going on, her mother is on the phone with her,” Sintera Graham said.
Graham told Channel 2's Michael Seiden via Skype that Jeanty's mother who listened in horror as her daughter begged her best friend's boyfriend to stop the car
“She’s screaming ‘Just stop! Let me out of the car. Let me out of the car!’” Graham said.
Jeanty's mother stayed on the phone with her daughter until the very last second.
“She heard a troubling sound and then all of the sudden, the phone, it was just silence," Graham said.
Police identified the driver as Jaron Hester, 30. Hester and his girlfriend, Alivia Stiggers, were taking Jeanty home after a night of bowling.
“Jazmin loved her family. She loved her mom. Her sister. Her 11-year-old sister,” Sintera Graham said.
Hester and Stiggers are recovering at Grady Memorial Hospital.
Investigators told Seiden, Hester will face charges when he is released from the hospital.
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