Witness: "There was no high speed chase"

From the Jamestown News, our sister paper:

The official version of events put forward in the aftermath of a tragic car accident involving NC State Trooper JD Goodnight that took the lives of Sandra Allmond and Taylor Strange in southwest Guilford County on May 23 appears is contradicted in statements by the first witness on the scene.

The official version has maintained from the outset that the trooper was in hot pursuit, initially chasing a Pontiac Grand Am but later changed to a Buick Skylark. Reports the following day added that the vehicle was occupied by four black males.

Eyewitness and first responder Terry Johnson tells a radically different story. In an exclusive interview with the Jamestown News July 6, Johnson claimed that there was no high-speed chase, no Buick Skylark, no four passengers.

“The only four passengers he saw were in that Honda,” said Johnson, “and two of them died.”

Johnson, who lives with his wife in an upscale neighborhood near Jamestown, related a detailed, explicit, moment-by-moment sequence of events leading up to the crash, which included two trips through the area in question with a reporter, that, at best, calls into question Trooper Goodnight's explanation and, at worst, completely contradicts it.