Former WWE Diva Sunny whose real name is Tamara Lynn Sytch or Tammy Sytch has officially been charged with homicide for a DUI crash that left another person dead. According to police reports Tammy Sytch was driving in Florida with a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit when she struck the vehicle of seventy five year old Julian Lassester. Tammy Sytch who has been arrested numerous times in the past with ongoing substance abuse issues has been charged with with DUI causing death, causing death while driving with a suspended license, three counts of DUI causing property damage and four counts of DUI causing injury,
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Pro wrestling Hall of Fame member Tamara Lynn “Sunny” Sytch was involved in a fatal three-car crash in Florida, and police are investigating her for possible “impairment,” authorities said.
Tamara Lynn Sytch, 49, was behind the wheel of a 2012 Mercedes-Benz when she rear-ended a Kia that was stopped at a traffic signal, police said in a statement Tuesday. The incident happened on North Yonge Street in Ormond Beach, just north of Daytona Beach, at 8:28 p.m. March 25.
The Kia’s driver, Julian Lafrancis Lasseter, 75, died from his injuries, authorities said.
The impact caused Lasseter’s car to strike a GMC Yukon, injuring its 46-year-old driver and a passenger, who didn’t need to be hospitalized, police said.
Tamara Lynn Sytch was taken to Halifax Health Medical Center “and later released after a search warrant was approved and executed to obtain a sample of her blood for investigation of impairment,” according to the police statement.
The Mercedes-Benz was traveling about 45 mph south on Yonge, just north of Granada Boulevard, where the speed limit is 45 mph, the traffic crash report said.
“The investigation may lead to criminal charges, which are pending toxicology results,” police said. “OBPD has requested an expedited timeframe on the processing of these samples and the results will be made available as soon as the department receives them.”
Tamara Lynn Sytch could not be immediately reached for comment Thursday.
In her days since leaving pro wrestling’s limelight, Tamara Lynn Sytch has accumulated a lengthy arrest record on charges including driving under the influence, making violent threats and a variety of others.
An arrest warrant was issued Jan. 13 in connection with a domestic violence case in New Jersey. She raised a pair of “scissors in the air towards the victim” while “threatening to kill him,” a complaint in Keansburg, New Jersey, alleges.
A prosecutor from Keansburg Municipal Court could not immediately be reached for comment Thursday, and it was not clear whether that case is still active.
Tamara Lynn Sytch has been arrested at least six times in the last seven years on suspicion of drunken driving in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
“Our hearts go out to the Lasseter family that lost their loved one in such a tragic event,” Ormond Beach Police Chief Jesse Godfrey said in a statement.
“Our goal at the Ormond Beach Police Department is to keep city roadways safe, so if you see a vehicle operating in a manner that leads you to believe the driver may be impaired, please don’t hesitate to call 911. You may just save someone’s life.”
Tamara Lynn Sytch was a mainstay on what was then the World Wrestling Federation and other circuits in the mid-1990s and into the early 2000s. She played multiple “diva” roles, including a ringside valet, an on-air commentator and a wrestler herself.
“Sytch will forever be remembered as the person who redefined the role of women in WWE,” according to her Hall of Fame profile. “She was a pinup, a fast-talking manager and could throw down when she needed to. In short, she was sexy, smart and powerful.
