CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Police say a wrong-way driver accused of causing a fatal crash in eastern Iowa over the weekend is a defendant in an Illinois murder case who was out on bail at the time of the crash. The Gazette reports that the crash happened around 2 a.m. Sunday on Interstate 380 in Cedar Rapids. Investigators say 34-year-old Tyler Lee, of Rockton, Illinois, was driving a pickup truck southbound in the northbound lanes when he crashed head-on into a sport utility vehicle carrying four people. Police say the crash killed a passenger in the SUV, 23-year-old David Phuong Nguyen of Cedar Rapids. At the time, Lee was out on $1 million bail for a May 2017 shooting death in Loves Park, Illinois.
Driver in fatal Iowa crash suspect in Illinois murder case
By Mandy Billings
Mar 9, 2021 | 11:54 AM
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