Crossville, Tenn., resident William Douglas Wynn, 72.
Wynn is charged with vehicular homicide from a 2010 crash and with felony failure to appear in court for fleeing trial in 2012. He was arrested after a standoff with police in Ren, Nev.
A 72-year-old Crossville, Tenn., man who in 2012 skipped out on a vehicular homicide trial in Cumberland County was taken into custody Wednesday after a five-hour standoff with police in Reno, Nev.
William Douglas Wynn, charged in 2010 with vehicular homicide by intoxication in a fatal crash near the VFW on U.S. Highway 127 south of Crossville, was taken into custody by Reno Police Department SWAT officers after a standoff at the Riverboat Hotel in the downtown area, according to Associated Press reports.
Wynn is charged in Cumberland County in a Dec. 21, 2010, DUI crash that claimed the life of Paul Jensen, 78, and severely injured Jensen’s wife, Shirley, then 72, and the driver of a third car, Rebecca Day, according to authorities. Wynn also was injured.
Reno officers were trying to serve a fugitive-from-justice warrant stemming from Wynn’s flight from trial when Wynn barricaded himself in a room at the hotel and made threats indicating he was armed, AP reports state. The standoff forced police to close off a block around the hotel in the main casino district while SWAT officers negotiated with Wynn.
Sam Boevers, with the 13th Judicial District Attorney’s Office in Crossville, said Wynn now will face a felony failure-to-appear charge as well as the pending vehicular homicide charge he fled.