Former LSU Wide Receiver Kyren Lacy Wanted for Fatal Hit-and-Run Crash That Killed 78-Year-Old Man

Kyren Lacy, a former wide receiver at LSU and potential 2025 NFL draft pick, is facing felony charges stemming from a Dec. 17 car crash that killed a former marine.

According to ESPN and WAFB, Louisiana State Police issued a warrant for the former Tigers player, 24, stemming from a car crash on Dec. 17, that killed a 78-year-old man, identified as Herman Hall of Thibodaux, La.

Lacy is accused of causing the crash and then fleeing the scene without rendering aid or calling authorities, per ESPN, and is being charged with negligent homicide, felony hit-and-run and reckless operation of a vehicle.

Police said Lacy was allegedly driving a 2023 Dodge Charger around 10 a.m. on Dec. 17, when he “recklessly passed multiple vehicles at a high rate of speed by crossing the centerline and entering the northbound lane while in a designated no-passing zone,” per WAFB.

The football player was allegedly “illegally passing the other vehicles” on Louisiana Highway 20 when a northbound pickup truck “abruptly braked and swerved to the right to avoid a collision” with Lacy’s Dodge Charger, Louisiana State Police said in a news release.

According to police’s statement to ESPN, a 2017 Kia Cadenza was behind the pickup truck. The driver of that vehicle reportedly “swerved left to avoid the oncoming Dodge Charger” that Lacy was driving when it “crossed the centerline and collided head-on with a southbound 2017 Kia Sorento.”

Hall was a passenger in the Kia Sorento traveling southbound, per WAFB. The 78-year-old former Marine later died from injuries sustained during the accident.

Following the collision, Lacy allegedly drove away, fleeing the scene “without stopping to render aid, call emergency services, or report his involvement in the crash,” police said.

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“Troopers are in communication with Lacy and his legal representation to turn himself in,” police said.

Two days after the crash, Lacy declared for the 2025 NFL Draft in a statement on social media.

“LSU has truly made a big impact on my life on and off the field, these past 3 years,” Lacy wrote in the announcement.

“Not too many people get to fulfill a dream like this. I am forever grateful for it,” he continued, thanking his coaches, support staff and trainers for “helping develop me as a football player, but most importantly as a person.”

Lacy promised to “take all of those life lessons” with him “in the next chapter of my life.”

He had 58 catches for 866 yards and nine touchdowns this past season. Lacy played two seasons at Louisiana before transferring to LSU in 2022.