Slain man's girlfriend killed in crash

A woman killed in a crash near Dayton on Thursday afternoon was the girlfriend of John Crawford III, the man fatally shot by police inside a Beavercreek Walmart in August.

Tasha Thomas, 26, of Fairborn, was the woman on the phone with Crawford when he was shot and killed by a police officer on Aug. 5. A second passenger, Frederick Bailey, 30, was also killed in the accident on Thursday.

Rev. Jerome McCorry, the National Faith Director for the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, who has been active in the protests and coverage of Crawford's death confirmed the death with family and The Enquirer on Friday morning.

Officers from the Dayton Police Department say that speeding led to the accident on Thursday.

Both occupants were ejected from a gray Pontiac after it hit a pole near the intersection of North Broadway Street and Edgewood Avenue, according to police reports.

Thomas was pronounced dead at the scene. Bailey was transported to Miami Valley Hospital, where he later died from his injuries, police said.