Tammy ‘Sunny’ Sytch, a WWE Hall of Famer, is now being investigated by the Ormond Beach Police Department for her possible drunken role in a recent tragic three-car accident in Volusia County on March 25, which claimed the life of 75-year-old Julian Lafrancis Lasseter.
This terrible occurrence is the most recent in a long string of legal problems for Sytch, which date back to 2015 and 2016, with many of them involving “driving while inebriated.” There are also the WWE veteran’s more recent and even more concerning incidents, such as threatening a “intimate partner” with scissors in January and being formally arrested in Keansburg, New Jersey in February on a litany of driving-related offences, including “operating under the influence of liquor or drugs,” “reckless driving,” and “driving with a license/registration suspended or revoked.”
According to TMZ, the accident occurred on March 25 at 8:28 p.m. ET along U.S. Highway 1 in Volusia County, Florida, when Sytch, driving a 2012 Mercedes, failed to stop at an intersection and collided with Lasseter’s stopped 2013 Kia Sorrento, causing it to collide with the car in front of it, a 2011 GMC Yukon. All three drivers were taken to the nearby Halifax Health Medical Center, and while Sytch and the third motorist were treated for non-life threatening injuries, Lasseter died later that night after suffering serious injuries of his own. Sytch was “driving at a high rate of speed” when she skirted the intersection, according to two witnesses.
The OBPD collected a sample of Sytch’s blood through a search request and is now examining whether she was intoxicated at the time of the event. They’ve “asked an expedited timescale on the processing of these samples” in the aim of quickly resolving this tragedy. However, results are still awaited as of this writing.
It’s heartbreaking to witness how far ‘Sunny’ has gone since her WWE Hall of Fame induction in 2011, particularly in recent months, when her acts have ranged from drunken driving to threatening another person to perhaps being the cause of someone’s death. It’s reached the point where one can’t help but think she’d be better off locked up.
It wouldn’t be for her sake, or for her to reflect on and learn from her actions, but merely to prevent others from becoming entangled in and victimised by the downward spiral she has built for herself in recent years.
