Driver Indicted in DUI-Related Fatal Crash

July 21, 2022 – A motorist who struck and killed a pedestrian in 2020 on Park Avenue in Orange Mound has been indicted on criminal charges including drunken driving, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A grand jury indicted Dennis Lloyd, 50, on counts of vehicular homicide involving drunkenness and recklessness, drunken driving, and reckless driving. He is free on $50,000 bond.

The incident occurred around 5 a.m. on June 3, 2020, when the pickup truck Lloyd was driving struck 34-year-old Devin Deaner as he was crossing Park Avenue at Haynes.

Lloyd said he stopped and attempted to perform CPR, but that an unidentified person nearby began yelling at him and fired a shot. Lloyd ran to a nearby store for safety and called police.

Deaner was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Investigators said Lloyd did poorly on a field sobriety test and registered a BAC of .101.

The case is being handled by Asst. Dist. Atty. Vanessa Murtaugh of the District Attorney’s DUI Unit which prosecutes all DUI cases in the Criminal Courts and works with local law enforcement to reduce the number of DUI-fatalities and injuries in Shelby County.