More details are emerging about the fatal automobile collison on I-55 on Nov. 8th.
According to authorities Jan 6th defendant, Shane Jason Woods of Auburn, was stopped by police. Reports say Woods made statements to the effect that he ‘was worth more dead than alive’.
They attempted to get him to exit his pick-up truck. Instead Woods drove away from the traffic stop as police say they watched him enter the opposite traffic lane, collide into another car killing a woman passenger from North Carolina and causing his own vehicle to burst into a what reports describe as a fireball.
Two other people were seriously injured.
Woods is being held without bond on charges of homicide, eluding police and DUI.