A Florida woman died after she stole a sheriff deputy’s patrol car and drove it head-on into oncoming traffic killing two innocent people Thursday.
“This moron stole a police vehicle and killed two human beings,” Marion County Sheriff Bill Woods said.
Kendra Boone, 33, first tried to steal an elderly woman’s keys at a Silver Springs shopping center around 2 p.m.
Boone managed to jump into a responding deputy’s patrol car after he briefly stepped out of the vehicle.
Police chased the stolen patrol car on East Highway 40 as it “erratically” traveled “well over 100 miles per hour” for several miles before losing control and crossing onto oncoming traffic.
Boone collided with a black pickup truck carrying three people; two of them, aged 73 and 72 years old, were killed in the crash along with her.
Sheriff Woods admitted that he felt a “sheer panic” upon learning a department’s patrol car was stolen.
“We know what’s in the vehicle. There’s a long rifle in there. The moment she did that she was a threat to human life – a threat for merely getting in that car,” he said.
“Think about that for a minute. What do citizens think when they see blue lights coming down the road? They think it’s a good person – not an a—hole like this.”
