State Police release video of Kyren Lacy's high-speed drive

A surveillance video released by Louisiana State Police taken from a gas station along La. 20 in Lafourche Parish shows former LSU wide receiver Kyren Lacy's bright green Dodge Charger driving south on Dec. 17, 2024.

Lacy was driving in the wrong lane of the two-lane road, passing several cars and a loaded 18-wheeler in a 40 mph zone.

"As the Dodge Charger returns to its proper lane, immediate braking and deceleration can be heard," a narrator of the video says.

And then the sound of a crash can be heard.

A gold southbound truck can be seen veering out of its lane and into a business parking lot to avoid a collision. The collision, which is out of view of the surveillance video, involved several vehicles and led to the death of a car passenger, 78-year-old Herman Hall of Thibodaux, who later died in the hospital, according to LSP.

"Since the incident occurred, State Police never reported that the green Charger impacted any of the involved vehicles," the narrator said.

"However, all evidence collected supports the conclusion that Lacy's reckless operation of the green Charger in oncoming traffic triggered the chain of events involving the other drivers and ultimately resulted in the fatal crash," the video says.

Ten minutes after the crash, Lacy stopped at a business 11 miles away and called a personal injury and defense attorney in the Baton Rouge area, State Police said.

More than 20 surveillance videos were used to identify Lacy as the driver of the Charger.

The video also shows bodycam footage of a trooper as he interviews witnesses, including the driver of the 18-wheeler that Lacy passed. The faces of the witnesses are blocked out in the video.

"Everybody was hitting their brakes," one witness said. "The Charger swerved back in."

"The green Charger had stopped, but then kept going," another witness said.

Lacy was arrested in January on counts of negligent homicide, felony hit-and-run and reckless operation of a vehicle after the crash shown in the video.

Lacy’s attorney, Matt Ory, has questioned the police narrative of the crash, saying in a Friday interview with Houma television station HTV that videos and documents show Lacy’s car was too far away from the crash to have caused it.

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