Kyren Lacy, an LSU wide receiver and NFL draft prospect, was found dead in Houston. Lacy was 24.
A cause of death was not announced, but WAFB reported it was a suspected suicide.
Lacy was facing charges in a hit-and-run for an incident that left a 78-year-old man dead in December.
A grand jury in Louisiana was set to hear evidence in the December accident case on Monday.
According to a news release from Louisiana State Police, Lacy was allegedly driving a 2023 Dodge Charger on Louisiana Highway 20 and “recklessly passed multiple vehicles at a high rate of speed by crossing the centerline and entering the northbound lane while in a designated no-passing zone.”
“As Lacy was illegally passing the other vehicles, the driver of a northbound pickup truck abruptly braked and swerved to the right to avoid a head-on collision with the approaching Dodge,” a Louisiana State Police news release said.
“Traveling behind the pickup was a 2017 Kia Cadenza whose driver swerved left to avoid the oncoming Dodge Charger. As the Kia Cadenza took evasive action to avoid impact with the Dodge, it crossed the centerline and collided head-on with a southbound 2017 Kia Sorento.”
Two days after the incident that saw Herman Hall, of Thibodaux, Louisiana, who was a passenger in the Kia Sorento, die from injuries suffered in the crash, Lacy declared for the NFL draft.
Lacy caught 58 passes for 966 yards and nine touchdowns in 2024 for LSU.
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