Tasha Thomas, the girlfriend of John Crawford, III, the man shot dead by police last August in an Ohio Walmart, was killed in a high-speed car crash on New Year's Day, Ohio's ABC 22 reports.

The Montgomery County Coroner's Office identified the victim as Thomas because her address and birthdate matched what she told police when a detective interrogated her for 90 minutes about how her boyfriend obtained a gun. Meanwhile, at the Walmart where Crawford died, law enforcement determined the alleged firearm was just an air rifle he had picked up from a store shelf.

Police say Thomas was riding in a car driven by 30-year-old Frederick Bailey in Dayton Thursday when the vehicle hit a pole at 90-100 miles per hour and overturned multiple times. Both of them were thrown from the car and killed.

"When I came over the one lady was still breathing," a witness told ABC 22, "I tried to use a towel to cover her up but the police got here and the ambulance was already here."

A police sergeant confirmed first responders tried to save Thomas, but she died after being transported to a hospital.

"It's just tragic," Michael Wright, the Crawford family's attorney, told the Guardian Friday, "It is a sad set of circumstances continuing from what happened at Walmart."

[h/t The Root]