Examining Evidence in Crash That Killed Khyree Jackson and Two Former Teammates

“More information is needed about exactly what happened in order to gather sufficient evidence,” the office said in a statement. It referred further questions to the Maryland State Police, which would only say the crash was still under investigation.

Jackson, who was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in the fourth round of the NFL draft in April, and two of his former Henry A. Wise High School teammates — Anthony Lytton Jr., 24, and Isaiah Hazel, 23 — were killed early Saturday when police said a speeding and possibly impaired driver struck their vehicle on northbound Route 4 near Presidential Parkway in Prince George’s County.

No charges had been filed as of Sunday afternoon, state police said.

The crash happened around 3:15 a.m. Saturday, as the three close friends and former high school football stars and college athletes were riding in a Dodge Charger driven by Hazel. Police said an Infiniti Q50 that was changing lanes at a high rate of speed struck the Charger and another car. The Charger veered off Route 4 and struck several tree stumps before coming to rest. All three men were killed, authorities said.

The driver of the Infiniti, identified by police as Cori Clingman, 23, of Upper Marlboro, and her two passengers were also unharmed. The driver of the other car was also uninjured. Efforts to reach Clingman Sunday were unsuccessful.

Gregory Russell, a former military police officer and accident reconstruction expert based in Maryland, said the full investigation into the crash could take several months. The time frame depends in part on investigators’ workload and the time it takes to gather evidence, such as medical records, he said.

Russell said most cars built after 2013 record crash data from the vehicle’s speedometer, which police would likely seek to obtain with a warrant.

“It’s one of the big things they’re going to look for and get, if they haven’t already,” Russell said.

The crash left many people in Prince George’s County and across the country grieving the loss of three promising young men who appeared to have bright futures ahead of them.

All three played football for coach DaLawn Parrish and won multiple state championships as he built a dynasty at Wise, winning 43 straight games and three state titles from 2015-18. Jackson finished his college career at the University of Oregon; he previously attended the University of Alabama. Lytton played at Florida State and Penn State, and Hazel played at the University of Maryland and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Wise High School also lost three students to violent deaths in 2023. Two of those students were fatally shot and the third was killed in a car accident.

In an Instagram post in April, just two days before the NFL Draft, Jackson wrote: “Watching Zayy and AJ (Hazel and Lytton) go to D1 has been my biggest inspiration, they have inspired me to be better, I can’t thank them enough.”