Crash kills 2 after suspected Madison Co. carjacking

MOUNT STERLING (AP) — Authorities say two people have been killed in a crash of vehicle taken in a suspected carjacking Monday night in Mt. Sterling.

The Madison County Sheriff’s Office in central Ohio says it received a call Monday night from a man who reported he’d been robbed of his SUV.

A deputy sheriff passed the speeding SUV a short time later and unsuccessfully tried to turn around and pursue it. The SUV was found less than two minutes having crashed into a utility pole and a tree.

The bodies of a man and a woman were found outside the vehicle. They were pronounced dead at the scene.

The driver has been identified as 20-year-old Chuck Tackett II, of Washington Court House, and his passenger as 32-year-old Dominique Sims, of New Holland.