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A 25-year-old man has been tried for murder in a crash that killed a Dearborn doctor
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A 25-year-old man has been tried for murder in a crash that killed a Dearborn doctor

DEARBORN, Mich. (WXYZ) – A 25-year-old Taylor man has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with a July crash that killed a Dearborn doctor.

Felecia Sunshine Lazo was given a $250,000/10% bond with a GPS attachment, house arrest and ordered not to drive during her arraignment Thursday in the 19th District Court. She is accused of speeding large and blew through a red lift on Nowlin Street, hit a car driven by Dr. Ghada Mustapha, who was killed.

Police were dispatched to the area of ​​Michigan Avenue and Nowlin Street, east of Outer Drive, around 7:59 a.m. on July 19 for the crash.

Their investigation found that an SUV was speeding on eastbound Michigan Avenue and failed to stop at a light. He hit an F-150 traveling north of Nowlin.

Mustapha, the driver of the F-150, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Lazo was taken to hospital in critical condition.

Omar Mouhajer, owner of Hudson’s Cleaners on Michigan Avenue near Nowlin Street, spoke to 7 News Detroit at the time of the accident and the day started like any other day.

“I’m here 10 hours a day, 6 days a week. I’ve been here 30 years, so I’ve seen it all,” he said.

Mouhajer was sitting at the coffee counter waiting for customers, but then the unthinkable happened just before 8am.

“She was at that light going north, that F-150, and the lady was speeding down in the eastbound direction and she did it and she dragged her right here to the intersection where the flowers are right now. Someone came, put them,” he recalled.

Mouhajer called 911 and ran to help.

“I couldn’t open the truck,” he said.

He said he then ran to the SUV driven by the guilty driver.

“I got the lady out. I left her on the ground. Then I went back to the F-150, trying to open, see what was going on with the lady. We can’t open the door though. I tried to talk to her. She is not responding,” Mouhajer said.

Mouhajer has a message for everyone behind the wheel.

“I’m asking everybody to slow down because that lady was literally driving 90 miles an hour,” he said.

“(It’s) better (to be) late than sorry. If you’re going somewhere, (and) you’re 5 minutes, 10 minutes late. It’s okay. It’s not the end of the world. Look what happened.

She is married. She had three children. He is a doctor,” said Mouhajer.

“The whole community is devastated by this tragic accident. That’s why we urge everyone to slow down. Take it easy,” he said.