Norfolk Circuit Court on Friday sentenced the third and final Navy sailor involved in a fatal street racing accident to manslaughter.
Jamal Tyreke-Jones, 26, was sentenced to a year and a half in prison after pleading guilty to a role in the 2020 Chesapeake Boulevard accident that killed 59-year-old Lester Van Toliver. Co-defendants Kylan Treonte Anderson-Jackson and Joshua Owen Spence, both 23, were sentenced last month to three years and one year, respectively. All three were Navy sailors at the time of the crash.
On April 5, 2020, a woman was driving west on Bunsen Court in the Norview neighborhood with Tolliver in the passenger seat, according to the Norfolk U.S. Attorney’s Office. As the woman’s car was crossing Chesapeake Boulevard toward Middleton Place, Anderson Jackson’s car collided with the woman’s car, hitting the passenger side. Anderson-Jackson, Spence, and Jones were all in separate vehicles and were driving south on a three-lane road at over 110 mph when the collision occurred.
Both Anderson-Jackson’s car and the woman’s car swerved off the road, into nearby bushes and stopped. Tolliver died from his injuries.
“After his arrest, Mr. Anderson-Jackson confessed in interviews with investigators that he was racing with co-defendants well over the 40 mph speed limit,” a press release from the Norfolk U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
On December 5, 2022, Anderson-Jackson pleaded guilty to manslaughter, felony racing resulting in serious injury, and reckless driving. On June 2, 2023, Judge Tasha D. Scott sentenced him to three years in prison, suspended for eight years, subject to five years of good behavior and three years of supervised probation.
Spence pleaded guilty to manslaughter and a misdemeanor of racing on November 14, 2022. He was sentenced to one year in prison, suspended for five years, on the condition that he complete three years of good behavior and one year of supervised probation.
Jones pleaded guilty to manslaughter and a misdemeanor of racing on December 15, 2022. Judge Robert B. Rigney sentenced Mr. Jones to one and a half years in prison and three and a half years of probation if he completed two years of good behavior.
Caitlyn Burchett, caitlyn.burchett@virginiamedia.com
