“I was just doing 0-50 pull”: Man charged with reckless homicide in fatal street race

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Despite his initial denials to police, a 21-year-old Fort Wayne man's remarks in a group chat may prove he took part in a street race which led to the death of a 19-year-old past May, according to Allen Superior Court documents. Allen County prosecutors formally charged Oo Sai Pa earlier this week with a Level 5 felony count of reckless homicide and a Class B misdemeanor count of participating in a speed race. Fort Wayne Police were called an area of South Clinton Street near McKinnie Avenue just before 5 a.m. May 18 where officers found a silver Chrysler 300 driven by Ken D. Dilworth had lost control, went over a median and crashed head on into a box truck that was traveling north on Clinton, court documents said. Dilworth's car burst into flames and he was pronounced dead at the scene, police said at the time. The driver of the box truck suffered minor injuries, according to police. Witnesses at the scene told investigators in court documents that they had seen Dilworth's Chrysler racing another car south on Clinton. The Chrysler went through a red light at McKinnie Avenue just before the crash, according to court documents. Investigators used video from a nearby auto parts store to pinpoint a dark colored Ford Mustang that could have possibly been involved. Later, investigators were told Pa, the driver of the Mustang in the video, may have been a witness to the crash, court documents said. When first speaking to police, Pa admitted in court documents he was at the scene of the crash. He denied that he raced with Dilworth, according to court documents. He also, however, allowed investigators to look at his cell phone. In his phone, forensic investigators found Pa made various remarks about the crash in a group chat, court documents said. "I was just doing 0-50 pull," Pa is accused of saying in the chat, which is typically street racing lingo referring to drivers starting at a stopped position and accelerating to 50 miles per hour as fast as possible. "His last thought was trying to hype me to drive fast and lost control and hit the truck," Pa said in the chat, according to court documents. "Thinking he was racing with me," Pa wrote in another, court documents said. A warrant has been issued for Pa's arrest. As of Thursday afternoon, he had not been booked into Allen County Jail.