Insets, far left: Dashauna Egerson and Trevon Loston (Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office). Insets, far right from top to bottom clockwise: Pler Moo, Karlah Kri Moo and Moo Nay Taw (GoFundMe). Background: Surveillance footage showing the fatal crash allegedly caused by Dashauna Egerson, who cops say was driving a car stolen by Trevon Loston (WITI).
Two Wisconsin teenagers are facing criminal charges for a “fatal fleeing” crash that left a mother and her two sons dead, with cops saying they ran from police in a stolen Dodge Journey and then hit the family’s vehicle “on purpose” to slow the chase down.
“Who the f— did I hit?” yelled 17-year-old Dashauna Egerson while being pulled out of the Dodge SUV that she wrecked with 19-year-old co-suspect Trevon Loston, according to a criminal complaint obtained by Law&Crime on Monday.
Egerson and Loston both face felony charges in connection with the deaths of Pler Moo, 50, and her two sons, Moo Nay Taw, 21, and Kar Lah Kri Moo, 15, as well as injuries to a pair of passengers, including a 12-year-old who survived but had to be intubated after suffering blunt-force trauma to the head and body, police say.
Egerson faces three counts each of second-degree reckless homicide, driving without a license, and fleeing law enforcement; Loston is charged with possession of a firearm as a delinquent, operating a vehicle without the owner’s consent, and bail jumping.
According to the complaint, each of the suspects told a different story to police when they were first interviewed. The stolen Dodge they were driving was swiped in Indiana and spotted cruising around Milwaukee with no license plates, police said, which prompted officers to attempt to pull them over.
“The 2017 Dodge Journey did not stop,” the complaint says.
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The teens allegedly “disregarded a red stop light” at 35th and Galena and then again in the area of 3500 West Vliet Street, causing a crash with the victims’ gray 2006 Mazda sedan as it was traveling lawfully westbound on Vliet Street through a green light.
“The Journey struck the victim Mazda at a high rate of speed … causing immense damage to both the Mazda and the people inside,” the complaint says, noting how the chase went on for approximately 1.39 miles and reached speeds of 70 and 80 mph.
Officers approached the Dodge after the crash and found Egerson and Loston both inside, with Egerson in the driver’s seat. A 16-year-old, who cops identify as Egerson’s sister, was “trapped in the backseat” and required surgery for multiple injuries, per the complaint.
“They observed a female [Egerson] climb out of the passenger’s side window of the car,” the complaint alleges. “While Officers were attempting to pull people out of both vehicles to render aid … [Egerson] suddenly yelled out, ‘Who did I hit?’ and then ‘who the f— did I hit?’ However, shortly after these two outbursts, [Egerson] told Officer Maglio that she had been a passenger and that Loston had been driving.”
Loston was questioned about what happened and told police that Egerson was initially a passenger but switched seats with him before the crash because he “got tired of driving,” according to cops. “Loston stated that the ‘b—’ (meaning the defendant) was driving during the fatal fleeing from police, but admitted that he was ‘guiding’ her on how to drive during the chase,” the complaint says.
According to Egerson, Loston wasn’t just guiding the teen — he was also threatening her with a gun, which her sister allegedly corroborated.
“[The sister] indicated that while [Egerson] was fleeing from the police, Loston told the defendant to ‘drive’ and also told her ‘don’t stop’ while he had the firearm in his hand, near the middle of his body, and pointed in the direction of the defendant,” the complaint says.
Police later explained to Egerson that her alleged description of what happened and who was driving was inconsistent with how their bodies were found “as well as her own prior statements.” This allegedly led to her admitting that she was behind the wheel.
“[Egerson] admitted that she was the driver of the Journey when it fled from the police, as well as when it crashed,” the complaint says. “She stated that when she began to drive the vehicle, she did not know it was a stolen vehicle, but fled because she found out she was driving a stolen vehicle. She stated that she only learned this fact about the Journey after the police activated their emergency lights.”
Police looked at data from the vehicle’s airbag control module, which allegedly reported an acceleration — from 66 mph to 70 mph — right before Egerson crashed into the victims, per the complaint. The gas pedal was allegedly “fully depressed.”
“[Egerson] stated that she crashed the Journey on purpose so that she would not have to keep speeding,” the complaint concludes. “The defendant stated that Loston was yelling at her to keep going, and her 16 year old sister … was yelling and crying in the back.”
Egerson claimed during police interviews that “the only reason she fled” was because the car was stolen. She stated that if the vehicle had not been stolen and Loston hadn’t pointed a gun at her, she would have pulled over.
Wisconsin Department of Transportation records showed that Egerson does not have a driver’s license and has never been issued one by the state of Wisconsin, according to police. The speed limit on N. 35th Street where the crash happened is 30 mph, the complaint says.
Egerson could face nearly 170 years in prison if convicted on all nine felony charges, according to local radio station WTMJ. Loston, meanwhile, could face nearly 20 years in prison if convicted. They’re both due in court on Sept. 29.
