Fatal crash victim’s aunt speaks out about indictment

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) — The family of a pregnant woman killed in a crash last year is speaking out after a Lexington grand jury just indicted the man accused of causing it.

Police are looking for 34-year-old Samuel Alex Turner.

They say he’s been indicted on charges of manslaughter and fetal homicide for the October 2018 crash that killed 29-year-old Kayla McCoy and her unborn baby.

“It was an accident, it wasn’t done out of any malice. It happened,” says McCoy’s aunt, Rhonda Hamm.

This is what she has to say about the accident that killed McCoy and unborn baby, Paizley.

Turner, McCoy’s fiance and Paizley’s dad, is accused of hitting another car head on near Patchen Wilkes Drive almost a year ago.

“Yeah, I was mad. I could’ve killed him. But that’s hindsight because people say things they don’t mean all the time when they’re mad but you gotta stop back and take in the big picture,” says Hamm.

The bigger picture, she says, is McCoy and Turner’s teenage son, Hayden.

“I can’t imagine what it would be like for him to have to go away for a long time and to not have his father with him and our family does not want that because Kayla would not want that,” says Hamm.

On top of the manslaughter and fetal homicide charges, police say Turner’s been indicted for wanton endangerment, having meth on him, and driving under the influence of drugs.

“He went to rehab and has been sober since February,” says Hamm.

She says he’s been in his own prison since that day, working to better himself for Kayla and Paizley.

“There’s nothing they can do to him that’s gonna make it any better or any worse,” says Hamm.

She hopes he sees this and will turn himself in, but Hamm wants him to know they’ll be with him every step of the way.

Lexington police ask if anyone knows where Turner may be to contact them.