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96-year-old dies at Knoxville assisted living facility after minivan crashes through wall
A 96-year-old man was killed when a minivan drove into the Shannondale Assisted Living Facility early June 14.
Walter Humphrey, a patient at the West Hills facility, died when a minivan driven by Eleasah Williams, 24, crashed through a wall and into a room in the building, the Knoxville Police Department wrote in a news release. Williams was charged with vehicular homicide with recklessness, the police department said. She was hospitalized after the crash.
A police investigation shows the driver sped out of an apartment complex on Woodview Lane at about 5:15 a.m., drove across four lanes of Middlebrook Pike and into the building.
This article originally appeared on Knoxville News Sentinel: Man dies at Shannondale Assisted Living after minivan crashes through wall
