BATON ROUGE, LA. (THECOUNT) — Former Jacksonville Jaguars running back Richard Murphy has been arrested and charged in connection with a June 14 crash that claimed the lives of Robert Tarver, 94, and Carla Tarver, 69, while seriously injuring Bobby Tarver, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana’s capital city.
According to sources, Murphy was booked into jail Tuesday morning on multiple charges stemming from the fatal collision.
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Murphy faces two counts of vehicular homicide, one count of first-degree vehicular negligent injuring, operating a vehicle while impaired (first offense), reckless operation of a vehicle, failure to obey a traffic control signal, operating a vehicle without required insurance, and operating a vehicle while his driver’s license was suspended.
Investigators allege Murphy was driving a Ford F-250 erratically and at a high rate of speed before running a red light at the intersection where the crash occurred.
The pickup truck then collided with a Ford F-150 occupied by the Tarvers.
Robert Tarver and his daughter-in-law, Carla Tarver, suffered fatal injuries and were pronounced dead at the scene.
Bobby Tarver, who was driving the Ford F-150, sustained serious injuries and remains hospitalized.
Murphy was also injured in the crash and was transported to a local hospital for treatment.
Sources say investigators were awaiting toxicology results to determine whether Murphy was impaired at the time of the collision. Those test results have since been returned, although authorities have not publicly released the findings.
The fatal crash occurred during the late afternoon of June 14 on Main Street near the Interstate 110 overpass in Baton Rouge.
Murphy, a Rayville, Louisiana, native, starred at LSU from 2007 through 2010 before playing professionally with the Jacksonville Jaguars in the NFL.
The Baton Rouge Police Department continues to investigate the fatal crash.
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