A driver allegedly told Pierce County deputies he would "prove he was God" following a crash that killed a mother of two, according to KIRO 7.
Reporters said 32-year-old Pierce Remington Lowell Pearson is facing a vehicular homicide charge in the death of 31-year-old Nina Fournier. Investigators claim Pearson was driving 100 miles an hour in a 35 mile-per-hour zone while impaired on drugs. Some 911 callers reported seeing Pearson speeding for several miles before he entered the intersection of 128th Street East and Canyon Road East in Puyallup, according to reporters.
That's when his car reportedly slammed into and over a SUV from behind, flipping Pearson's vehicle and landing on the SUV's roof. Fournier was driving the SUV and likely died instantly in the impact, according to investigators.
Court documents show Pearson was incoherent and admitted he was on pills and heroin. He didn't even know he was allegedly involved in a crash, reports say. Deputies also noted this the court documents: "He was going to prove he was God and he had been driving since yesterday."
The 32-year-old man also had no driver's license, but he had a record in Oregon and Utah, according to prosecutors. They said he was previously arrested for DUI, hit-and-run and theft.
Jim Fournier, the victim's father, asked Judge Thomas Patrick Quinlan Jr. to keep Pearson in custody and double his $500,000 bail.
“Mr. Pearson here was driving for miles and miles at 100 miles an hour,” Fournier said. “At every milepost he could have decided to slow down and he did not.”
Nina Fournier was described by friends as an “inspiring woman" and “the kindest person they’d ever met," according to reporters. Her father said she had a 6-year-old and a 10-year-old.
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