SOLON: Authorities have identified a woman who they say was fatally shot moments after her car collided with the suspect’s vehicle in suburban Cleveland.
This morning, police have also identified and charged her shooter.
Solon police say Deborah Pearl, 53, of Twinsburg, was killed Saturday morning. Officers responded to the crash before 7:30 a.m. and found Pearl in the road with multiple gunshot wounds. She was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.
Police at the scene arrested a North Ridgeville man, 29, who was carrying a rifle.
Matthew Ryan Desha, 29 of North Ridgeville, has been charged with murder in connection with the accident and shooting of Pearl. Desha is expected to be arraigned by video later this morning in Bedford Municipal Court.
Pearl’s family remembered her during an interview and gathering on Sunday afternoon at the intersection where she died.