Tasha Thomas, the girlfriend of John Crawford, III, the man shot dead by police last August in an Ohio Walmart, was killed in a high-speed car crash on New Year's Day, Ohio's ABC 22 reports.

John Crawford III, a 22-year-old black man, was fatally shot by police inside an Ohio Walmart after another shopper reported Crawford was "walking around with a gun in the store." The alleged gun, which the witness described in a 911 call as a black rifle, and later said he thought was an AR-15, turned out to be a BB…