Career criminal Joseph Taye was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison for causing the Line of Duty Death of Delaware City (DE) Fire/EMT Michelle Smith.

 As reported in the Secret List-As you may recall, it started with a motorcycle crash occurred last December. The operator of the bike, Edward Reiss, was injured in the incident and was lying in the roadway. A Delaware City Fire Company ambulance (standing by to cover that area for the Wilmington Manor Fire Company) arrived on the scene within minutes and DCFC FF Michelle Smith got out of the ambulance, ran over to Mr. Reiss and began to administer care.
 
A New Castle County Police Officer then arrived on the scene and activates his emergency equipment.
Moment’s later, veteran career criminal Taye, driving someone else's BMW drunk, southbound on Route 13 entered the crash scene and sideswiped the county police car causing significant damage. The Police officer leaped back into his car just prior to the impact and avoids injury. Taye loses control and strikes Smith and Reiss. The BMW comes to a stop on the right shoulder south of the crash scene. Smith later dies in the Line of Duty.

At that point, a light colored Honda pulls up to the crash scene. The operator of the Honda, an unidentified black male, ACTUALLY HELPS TAYE into the Honda (Taye is unable to walk himself due to his physical disability) and the Honda subsequently flees the scene. Witnesses describe the fleeing Honda and also advised that the operator was who we all now know as career criminal Taye, now on his way to his new home-prison for life.

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