A Montgomery County woman accused of killing two Pennsylvania State Police troopers and a pedestrian last year turned down an open plea offer.
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Jayana Tanae Webb, 21, of Eagleville in Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, is facing trial on charges of third-degree murder, manslaughter of a law enforcement officer in the second degree, homicide by vehicle while DUI, homicide by vehicle, involuntary manslaughter, and reckless endangerment.
According to KYW News Radio on Friday, Webb turned down an open plea on three counts of third-degree murder, three counts of homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence, and one count of DUI.
A court docket from Philadelphia showed a jury trial for Webb is now scheduled for December.
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Webb has been free since last September on 10 percent of $600,000 bail after the city’s prosecutors asked for it be denied.
Last year, a city judge dropped the third-degree murder charge over what she believed was a lack of evidence and charges, but Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s office urged another judge to reinstate the charge. The judge at a hearing in August reinstated the charge.
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Troopers Martin F. Mack III, 33, of Bristol Borough, and Branden T. Sisca, 29, of Montgomery County, were killed when Webb slammed into a parked state police patrol SUV on I-95 southbound by the stadium complex in Philadelphia as they secured the pedestrian – Reyes Rivera Oliveras, 28, of Allentown – who was on the highway just before 1 a.m. on March 21, 2022.
The force of the crash threw the victims across the highway, state police said.
The troopers and Oliveras were killed.
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Webb was tweeting at the time of the crash, she had marijuana in her system, she had been pulled over by the troopers for speeding minutes earlier but was released due to a call for a person on the road, and her blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit at the time, according to previous testimony in the case.
The fallen lawmen were remembered at large funeral services following their deaths. Mack’s funeral mass happened in Tullytown Borough.
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