A Durham teacher and her husband were Pronounced deceased last weekend after the rideshare vehicle they were traveling in crashed into a warehouse in Detroit, according to the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office.
Detroit police responded around 10:15 a.m. on February 22 to the 6000 block of Rosa Parks Boulevard for reports of a crash. Officers located a vehicle that had struck a warehouse loading dock door. Two passengers were found unresponsive inside the vehicle.
Authorities identified the victims as 57-year-old Carla Boynton and her 60-year-old husband, Andre Boynton, both of Durham. They were pronounced dead at the scene, prosecutors said.
Officials stated that the driver, identified as 40-year-old Theopris Mays of Herndon, Virginia, was working for Lyft at the time of the crash. Prosecutors allege that Mays was driving at a high rate of speed before losing control of the vehicle and colliding with the building. He is also accused of leaving the scene on foot before being taken into custody by Detroit police.
Mays has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder, one count of reckless driving causing death, and one count of leaving the scene of an at-fault accident causing death. A bond redetermination hearing is scheduled for Friday, and a probable cause conference is set for March 5.
At the time of her passing, Carla Boynton was a teacher at the Durham School of Technology. The case remains ongoing.
