Mom Of Five Killed In Car Crash After Boyfriend Cuts Brake Line To Make Crack Pipe

This is so unbelievably sad.
Tammy Fox, a 38-year-old mother of five children in Scranton, Pennsylvania, was killed on August 22nd when her car “raced through an intersection” and “violently struck a tree” in the city.
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But what at first seemed a tragic accident has turned drastically different the more police investigate.
On Wednesday, a week after the crash, the Pennsylvania State Police announced that they have determined her brake line had been severed, and Fox’s death was being investigated as a criminal matter.
Further, cops revealed they made an arrest too: her boyfriend, 39-year-old John William Jenkins, was picked up and charged with one count of criminal homicide relating to the incident.
According to the Pennsylvania State Police (below):

“[Jenkins] admitted that on the evening prior to the crash he cut the victim’s brake lines while at their residence in an attempt to obtain a metal pipe that could be used to smoke crack cocaine.”

Ugh…
According to Jenkins’ own telling of it in file documents from police, he claims Fox was agitated about wanting to smoke crack, and so rather than go to the store, he decided to find a potential piece of pipe on her car that might do the job.
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Apparently in the process of doing that, he cut the brake line — and the rest is, unfortunately, a tragedy.
So sad.
There’s a GoFundMe set up for Fox’s children, BTW — click HERE to see that.
R.I.P.
[Image via GoFundMe/Lackawanna County Jail.]